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...demilitarization could be guaranteed by a permanent United Nations force-one that could be withdrawn only by the Security Council. With its veto power, the U.S. could thus assure Israel that the force could never be taken away without American assent. A similar U.N. force could be established at Sharm el Sheikh, a strategic point overlooking the Straits of Tiran, so that Egypt could never again threaten Israeli access...
Once a candidate has surpassed the quota, his excess votes will be re-distributed among the candidates who were marked number two on his ballots. If those candidates also go over the quota, the ballots will be withdrawn again and credited to the contenders in the third position. This process continues until nine council candidates and six school committee aspirants have reached the quota figure...
...only film script--and even the title is unwilling to commit itself to anything more specific than Film. In the thirty-five second long Breath, the only elements are rubbish and recorded cries and breaths. (This sequence, Alvarez somewhat startlingly reveals, was written for the revue Oh, Calcutta, but withdrawn by the author when producer Kenneth Tynan insisted on scattering naked bodies among the rubbish...
...deposit (CDs) and other investments that sometimes yield more than 9%. Through early 1973, S and Ls were taking in savings at an average net rate of more than $1 billion a month, but they suffered a net outflow in July; in August a staggering $1.2 billion was withdrawn, the third largest monthly loss on record. Since then, the situation has improved little...
This pair, both Americans, illustrate Powell's penchant for isolating national and temperamental types. Glober is a sixtyish, playboy film producer, a self-made man up from Jewish-immigrant slums, who takes a snippet of pubic hair from every woman he seduces. Gwinnett is a withdrawn, thirtyish academic, a descendant of Button Gwinnett, the first signer of the Constitution, who has a whiff of necrophilia in his makeup. Both are drawn to Pamela partly because of her infamous liaison (in Books Do Furnish a Room) with the late writer X. (for nothing, not for Xavier) Trapnel, the possible source...