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Washington is eager to have Egypt continue in its role as a moderate, pro- Western influence in the region. In that spirit, U.S. officials worked hard last week to get an agreement signed between Egypt and Israel in the dispute over Taba, the slice of Red Sea beachfront that Israel refused to hand back to Egypt along with the rest of Sinai in 1982. While no accord was initialed before Bush's departure, officials on all sides are hopeful that an agreement for binding arbitration in the dispute can be reached soon, opening the way for a relaxation in Egyptian...
...DEADLY ROUNDUP AT SEA Pressure mounts to save the dolphin by restricting tuna fishing AND WITHIN MINUTES HALF A DOZEN POWERFUL SPEEDBOATS ARE LOWERED OVER THE SIDE INTO THE BRIGHT WATERS OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC. BURSTING INTO NOISY LIFE, THEY SLICE THROUGH THE CRESTING WAVE TOPS AT 35 KNOTS. DEAD AHEAD OF THEM, A POD OF PORPOISES, OR DOLPHINS, BOLT WITH FRIGHT, BUT THE FLEEING MARINE MAMMALS ARE SOON OVERTAKEN. LIKE COW PONIES ROUNDING UP CATTLE, THE SPEEDBOATS HERD HUNDREDS...
Besides Wang, the other actors help make this movie a true slice of life and not a cliched fable. A registration clerk in a Peking hospital, QinQin as LiLi seems as real as the girl next door. Hiding behind pigtails and a teasing smile, QinQin makes Lili more appealing to the audience than any other character in the movie...
...that People would upgrade all its services, install leather seats in its aircraft, and offer --horrors!--luxury flying in newly installed first-class seating. At the same time the determinedly upscale VIP lounge was set up in North Terminal. The counterrevolutionary campaign was a clumsy attempt to woo the slice of the airline market that People had never served, the business traveler. The change in style came on the heels of a brief People effort to raise fares, a move that was reversed within seven weeks...
...Arnold Schwarzenegger on April 26, Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg on July 19, and Fergie and Prince Andrew on July 23. They are all fair game for emulation in a democracy where a plastic card can grab you a piece of anyone else's dream and an extra slice of wedding cake. Linda Blackburn, a former catering consultant, and onetime wedding gown Retailer Linda Stuart started a Los Angeles firm offering advice at an average $1,500 a pop on how to get the shebang together, and their consulting business is booming. "It's part of the whole yuppie thing...