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...President, Hosni Mubarak, better than Sadat, Nixon found. But it is vital, he argues, that the U.S. should push ahead with the Camp David peace plan, that the Palestine Liberation Organization must recognize Israel's right to exist ("That can happen") and that this country "not allow a vacuum to be left on the Palestinian issue...
Feeling that a vacuum resulted when the Real Paper folded last spring, David Savage and Bradley T. Howe '63--the publishers of the new paper--decided to set up a journal which would focus on Cambridge news, opinion and the arts. Howe said they hope to appeal to the city's young professional population and student communities...
Torn between former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and his rival, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, the opposition is too fragmented to put up much of a fight when the issue comes up in Parliament this month. So far, the vacuum has been filled only by former Premier Raymond Barre, whose ponderous oratory and demeanor symbolized economic discipline during the Giscard years. "The nationalizations are a source of uncertainty for our enterprises and a brake on investment and exports," he scolded. "This experience is going to show that nationalized businesses are costlier than private ones...
...Islamic regime moved swiftly to fill the vacuum created by the two earlier deaths. Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Chief Justice Ayatullah Moussavi Ardabeli jointly assumed the presidency until new elections are held, at the latest by Oct. 19, to fill the vacancy. They named another cleric and Khomeini intimate, Interior Minister Ayatullah Mohammed Reza Mahdavi Kani, 50, as Prime Minister; as one of his first tasks Kani pledged to improve security. The three, who complete Banisadr's five-man hit list, also vowed to press on with a purge aimed at eliminating their opposition...
Another entree: a la Carte-brand foods from Kraft. They are single-serving main dishes, like beef burgundy or creamed chicken, which are neither frozen nor canned but packed and vacuum-sealed in a new kind of aluminum and plastic pouch that can be stored on a shelf, popped into boiling water and eaten in five minutes. Kraft publicity identifies the market as: "Dual income families, working single parents and single people who lead active lives." Kraft is pleased with test-market results of a la Carte in half a dozen cities, and the product will soon be sold nationally...