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DIED. MORRIS ABRAM, 81, civil-rights lawyer, Jewish leader and former Brandeis University president who shepherded a landmark 1962 voting-rights case to the Supreme Court, which overturned a Georgia law that gave more weight to votes from mostly white rural areas; in Geneva, Switzerland. A former United Negro College Fund chairman, Abram served as the first general counsel of the Peace Corps and co-founded UN Watch to monitor the United Nations...
...Israel-Syria peace deal is now unlikely to come on Bill Clinton's watch, perhaps not even on President Hafez Assad's. President Clinton left empty-handed from a Geneva encounter with the Syrian leader Sunday, in which he'd hoped he could jump-start a new round of Israel-Syria talks. The President, like many who've tried before, found that the disagreement over the extent of Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights remains too fundamental to allow any movement. And while the two neighbors have for 26 years managed to avoid a war despite the absence of such...
...recent action, Hobart blew out a weak Lafayette squad 15-3 at home, in Geneva, N.Y. It appears senior goalie Keith Cynar will be facing his first real...
...high points of everyone's week was the Friday-morning visit of a distinguished-looking money changer known as Monsieur Moustache. Much of the rest of the week was spent discussing how Monsieur Moustache's rate varied from what some correspondent had found while on assignment in Geneva or Tangiers...
...late Friday night, negotiations to get agreement on an agenda for a new round of global-trade negotiations collapsed. Exhausted WTO delegates said they would try again next year in Geneva to bridge huge differences...