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Acts of Terror. In the popular mind, at least, the Palestine Liberation Organization has been blamed for most of the acts of Arab terrorism. In fact, the P.L.O. is anything but a disciplined group, and Arafat has frequently had difficulty in controlling some of its wilder members. He has publicly condemned some of the most outrageous acts of terror carried out by his affiliates within the P.L.O., not so much on moral grounds but because they hurt the fedayeen image...
Housing costs, however, vary so strikingly from one part of the country to another, and even from city to city within the same region as to astonish many families on the move. The reasons are be wilder ingly diverse, but there are some common themes. Generally, prices are lowest in the South and Southwest, where most houses are built without basements, although prices have been rising rapidly in fast-growing Houston. Lack of population growth in St. Louis and Philadelphia and easy access to lumber supplies in the Northwest have held prices down there. On the other hand, high land...
...credulity. On the other hand, his problems often lead the Ingalls family into livelier action sequences than competing shows offer. Best of all, the show eschews the nostalgic and moralizing narration that is the most obvious of the many trials The Waltons inflicts on viewers. Like the Laura Ingalls Wilder children's books from which the show derives, Little House genuinely seems to be striving for a simple, straightforward style, minimizing both melodramatic and sentimental excesses...
...sale of his memoirs. One of the West Coast's top literary agents, Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, said that Nixon has signed a contract with him to negotiate with publishers. Lazar, 67, represents such luminaries as Vladimir Nabokov, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Irwin Shaw, Theodore White, Françoise Sagan and Billy Wilder. Lazar expects Nixon to write three volumes. The first will trace his life through his first term as President; the second will cover his foreign policy achievements and contacts with world leaders; the third will deal with Watergate. "I think he's going to tell one of the great stories...
...rated The Waltons' family-bond wagon. ABC's The New Land, based on the movie, will star Scott Thomas and Bonnie Bedelia as Scandinavian emigrants settling in Minnesota, circa 1858. NBC's Little House on the Prairie, based on the Little House novels by Laura Ingalls Wilder, will begin with "restless but resourceful" Michael Landon (Bonanza), his perfect wife (Karen Grassle) and their three adorable daughters also settling in Minnesota...