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...lengthening of the strike increased the chances of violence. Miners have already stopped some coal headed for utilities from non-union mines. Dozens of coal trucks have been forced at gunpoint to dump their loads. Towboats hauling coal barges up Pennsylvania's Monongahela River had to abandon operations when they were fired on by miners. "I don't like to see anyone suffer," says Jim Elias, 50, a miner in Greene County, Pa. "But we've got to get a decent contract somehow. I'm not the kind to fire a shot or throw a rock...
...feels that Israel must give up a great deal if peace is to come. "Israel cannot have both peace and territory," says Breira Executive Director Dan Gillon, arguing that the West Bank is not necessary to the security of Israel. There are others, too, who would be willing to abandon Jewish settlements in the Sinai. Israel, says Rabbi Stephen Pinsky of Tenafly, N.J., "should be able to give up the Sinai, to take a chance on this area." David Weinstein, president of Chicago's Spertus College of Judaica and a frequent visitor to Israel, agrees. Says he: "Relocate...
Meanwhile, neither Roth nor the Packwood-Moynihan team is prepared to abandon the tax-credit measures. Says Roth, whose proposal has passed the Senate three times but foundered in the House: "A majority in both the House and the Senate are sponsors of tuition tax cred its." No fewer than 252 members of the House and 57 Senators co-sponsored various tax credit bills in the past year. Nonetheless, Carter's proposal has gained support from influential members of the House Committee on Education and Labor. Either way, the chances are good that middle-income families will win some...
...should produce a plan for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and present it to both Egypt and Israel in private, as the basis for further negotiations, or unveil it publicly. Sadat presumably expected that such American proposals would be close to his own. Carter, however, seemed unlikely to abandon the present U.S. insistence that the nations in the Middle East work out the specifics of any agreement among themselves...
Even if these scenes didn't wrench us out of the normal world, perhaps, the story would, for it is often as difficult to fathom as the wanton brutality. Robert De Niro and Gerard Depardieu, as landlord and peasant, are bound together, unable to abandon either their friendship or their class positions. The two were boys together: DeNiro always following and admiring the peasant Depardieu; but their friendship was always flawed because, as Depardieu says, "I caught the frogs your family...