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Three-Way Trade. The U.S. and Israel began pressing for the release of the two TWA passengers soon after they were imprisoned, but the Syrians at first refused to consider any kind of deal. Israel then turned to the Egyptians, who suggested a wider swap of prisoners. As talks progressed, Egypt asked that Israel return the Syrian pilots, and the Israelis countered by demanding the return of Samueloff and Muallem. This brought Syria grudgingly into the bargaining, which was conducted largely through the Italian embassy in Damascus and broke down three times. The International Red Cross concluded the arrangement...
...Middle East the direct approach is not always the most successful one. Last week a complicated three-way swap of prisoners took place among Israel, Syria and Egypt. Shlomo Samueloff, a Hebrew University physiology professor, and Saleh Muallem, a travel agent, had been held in Damascus since their TWA jet was hijacked on Aug. 29. They were exchanged for 13 Syrians held by the Israelis, including two pilots who had accidentally flown their Syrian Air Force MIG-17s into Israel 16 months ago. In an emotional scene at Lydda airport, Premier Golda Meir hugged and kissed the two returnees...
...South (Barnard, Briggs, Bertram, and Mabel Daniels) and Winthrop and North (Holmes. Moors, and Cosmetic). Each of these would involve up to 100 students-50 from each campus-in a one-semester "experimental exchange," East House (Cabot, Whitman, and Eliot) is working on two exchanges. A Lowell-East swap may be proposed before the end of the month, and the Cliffies are also sounding out Duster on its willingness to go coed...
...helped Representative H. R. Gross put together an attack on former Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey and a friend, Max Kampelman, are said to have interceded in a foreign-aid transaction on behalf of an auto gear and parts factory doing business with India. Williams and Gross used to swap intelligence with Newsman Mollenhoff...
...Leasco acquired Philadelphia's Reliance Insurance Co., an old-line company with useful cash assets. This deal, accomplished through a stock swap, sparked an inquiry by Brooklyn Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler, who has serious doubts about conglomerates' taking over insurance companies and using their funds for expansion. Among the details turned up in hearings last week was that, in preparing the bid, Leasco executives used the code name "Raquel" for Reliance to conceal the identity of the target from even Leasco's own employees...