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Throughout the week Israeli officials attempted to find ways to dampen tempers. In the West Bank, they closed Hebron University, a hot spot of Islamic fundamentalist activity, and several other colleges. A two-day shutdown of nearly 900 Arab schools in the occupied territories was extended through this week. The Jerusalem daily newspaper Al Quds, which circulates widely in Gaza and the West Bank, was banned there for one month after it published a picture of an Israeli soldier carrying a tear-gas launcher and fleeing from a crowd of demonstrators in Gaza. Two refugee camps, Jabalia...
...members to resign, Ortega packed the court with his supporters. A national dialogue also collapsed last week after 14 opposition parties walked out, charging that the government had not responded to their proposals for constitutional reform. The events dulled the impact of Ortega's promise to observe a two-day Christmas truce and to send "technical advisers" to participate this week in direct talks with the contras...
...Music Ensemble and the Asian American Art Ensemble, has been working with a group of students this week in a Workshop Series entitled "Jazz Improvisation, (Third) World Culture and So-Called Performance Art." Tonight is the culminating concert. And in November, Ellis and Wynton Marsalis are coming for a two-day deluge of workshops, master classes, and discussions. In the absence of advanced Jazz courses from the Music Department, workshops like Jane Ira Bloom's and the Marsalises have to work wonders. They seem...
...two-day session was an all-American jamboree that pointedly excluded foreign participants. Explained William Graham, the President's science adviser: "It is not so much a fear as a certain realization. The Japanese will move very aggressively in this area." Reagan outlined an eleven-point plan that ranged from the promise of $150 million in Defense Department funds over the next three years to the relaxation of antitrust laws so that firms may collaborate on projects. Recalling remarks by Frank Press, president of the National Academy of Sciences, Energy Secretary John Herrington declared, "Superconductivity has become the test case...
...Communists it was a humiliating defeat. For the Christian Democrats and Socialists it was an uplifting victory. But for the citizens of Italy last week's two-day election meant more of the same gridlock that has produced 46 governments since World War II, and yet another battle for the premiership, which is what triggered the election to begin with...