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...administer other specific elements of security, like controlling terrorism, I think will be resolved without delay." Sadat wants the council to act as a legislature. Begin is adamantly opposed, contending that the council should have only narrow administrative functions. Making it a legislature, he believes, would lay the groundwork for a Palestinian state that might harbor terrorists, whom he described to American Jewish leaders as "two-legged beasts." If Israel does not retain full control over security in the occupied territories, he said, "peace itself would be murdered...
...price controls, but it rests ultimately on market discipline. The French are now determined to undertake short-term austerities necessary to increase basic investment in sectors earmarked for future growth. They have publicly identified the problem, and the Prime Minister is constantly discussing the issue and laying the groundwork for public support for the remedy. There are no painless cures, but if the French public is prepared to undertake this program of austerity, then France, for all its divisive politics, may well be joining Germany and Japan in the ranks of countries which have very successfully adapted to the requirements...
DIED. Samuel Berger, 68, laconic career diplomat; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. As U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (1961-64), "Silent Sam" failed in his efforts to persuade Seoul's military regime to establish democratic institutions, but succeeded spectacularly in helping to lay the groundwork for the country's industrial boom. As deputy to Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker in South Viet Nam (1968-72), he administered a policy he described as "one of buying as much time as we could" after the U.S. had abandoned its doomed attempt "to win the war with money and people instead of brains...
DIED. Henry Roeland Byrd, 61, legendary blues pianist also known as "Professor Longhair," whose recordings of the '40s and early '50s laid the groundwork for rock 'n' roll; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. Born in Bogalusa, La., Byrd taught himself to play the piano, imitating such barrelhouse blues players as Kid Stormy Weather. His Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Big Chief combined elements of blues, New Orleans marching music and Caribbean rhythms. Though he never matched the success of Fats Domino and others who popularized the Byrd piano style, recognition finally came...
...groundwork was laid earlier this year at a Moscow meeting between Sakharov and a member of Poland's major human rights organization, the Committee for Social Self-Defense (KOR). After that, KOR publicly expressed solidarity with Soviet dissidents, and 15 Polish protesters staged a hunger strike on behalf of the Charter 77 organizers before their Prague trial...