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...difficult to assess how heavy the P.L.O.'s new burden will be. While agreeing to sever Jordan's links with the West Bank, Hussein remained studiously vague in his speech about the concrete steps he intends to take. Just before his speech, the King terminated a five-year $1.3 billion development program for the West Bank and dissolved Jordan's 60-member lower house of parliament, half of whose members represent West Bankers. Both steps were more symbolic than significant...
...trees. Money is growing scarce, especially in Gaza, as the Israelis impose punitive fines and present confiscatory bills for dwindling services. Merchants in the West Bank say their income has shrunk by 60%. Savings are vanishing. To punish communities where there has been rioting, the Israeli authorities sever telephone lines, cut off electricity, curtail food shipments and restrict travel...
...fact, as part of the Admissions Office'sever-expanding recruitment efforts, Fitzsimmonssays that plans are underway to contact highschool seniors through the mail in order to piquetheir interest in the University...
Wednesday, 24--In their first ever vote on divestment, the Board of Overseers calls on the University's governing Corporation to sever all ties with companies that do business in South Africa...
Mallon attempts to relieve the tedium of his stereotypical plot by creating exaggerated characters who often seem more ridiculous than humorous. Mallon's penchant for defying convention, if even in the most conventional of ways, is evident in his intentional mangling of the names of Harvard buildings. Sever Hall is reincarnated as Cleaver, and Warren House is transposed to Warble House...