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Whatever Harvard would not be able to deal with, however, would be a snag in the plans that put considerably more housing offline on September 13 than had been predicted...
...negotiations could still hit a snag. Environmentalists already complain that the state is letting the sugar companies off too easily. Some growers could decide that it is cheaper to sue than to capitulate. And the Miccosukee Indians, who hunt frogs and give tourists boat rides in the Everglades, may insist that water-purity standards be raised, not lowered. But for the first time in five years, a solution is in sight that all parties could live with -- even the alligators circling Gene Duncan's airboat...
...mistake three days later, when it received a cable from a U.S. official in Cairo saying Sheik Abdel Rahman was heading for Sudan. The embassy sent an urgent message informing the State Department that the sheik had been given a visa by mistake. Khartoum officials, who hoped to snag the sheik and revoke the visa, thought he would leave for the U.S. on a specific flight. But the sheik flew to Pakistan instead...
SUMMER MOVIES ARRIVE THIS YEAR WEARing a big Smile button. In a kinder, gentler mood (and facing a shrinking, glutted market), moguls have resolved to appeal to the widest possible audience. So the violence in action movies gets toned down one calculated notch, to snag a PG or PG-13 rating, and sex is soft-focused into romance...
...Israel withdraw from the Gaza Strip before reaching an agreement with the Palestinians on arrangements for the West Bank. But a Palestinian leader has told TIME the plan is being discussed in secret talks between the Israelis and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Such an agreement may run into a snag named YASSER ARAFAT. The P.L.O. chief favors the deal only if he gets to head the Palestinian administration that would replace Israeli authorities in the Strip...