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...settlement, setting out some firm U.S. guidelines while leaving the Arabs and Israelis plenty of room for their own negotiations. Its essence: Palestinian self-government "in association" (presumably some kind of loose federation) with Jordan, which ruled the West Bank from 1949 to 1967. Reagan called upon Israel to halt any further Jewish settlement in the occupied areas, and to prepare for eventual withdrawal from, most, though not all, of the territories. With equal force, Reagan called on Arab states to recognize explicitly Israel's right to exist as a nation. He flatly rejected an independent Palestinian state constructed...
...negotiations, was designed to maintain good relations with both Peking and Taipei. Soon after Reagan took office, Administration insiders say, Peking began pressing Washington for a settlement on the thorny issue of continued U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan. When Peking began demanding a firm date for the U.S. to halt selling arms to Taiwan, Washington countered by insisting that the Chinese formally renounce the use of force to achieve reunification with Taiwan, and the talks foundered. But last May, after Chinese Communist Party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping completed a sweeping reorganization of China's top leadership, and U.S. Vice...
...even if it can rule indefinitely by sheer force of arms, the Jaruzelski government must also win the cooperation of the nation to halt Poland's continuing economic decline. According to government statistics, industrial production in the first seven months of this year was 7.3% lower than in the same period last year. To compound the problem, early indications that agricultural production would improve this year have been thrown off by a long dry spell. The potato and sugar-beet harvest may be 25% smaller than in 1981. This can only put further strains on weary Polish consumers...
Last week, however, the phoenix returned to ash, probably not to rise again. Owner Robert Weingarten, a former stockbroker and publisher of the investment journal Financial World, who had lost $3 million on SR since taking over in 1980, ordered a halt on the issues at the printers and dismissed the remaining two dozen members of an already reduced staff. His sad conclusion: SR was doomed without an unaffordable injection of at least $5 million for circulation and promotion. For months he had tried to merge with another magazine, to sell SR, or even to give it away. Potential buyers...
Director Edward Stone has set a frenetic pace that jams to a halt, like traffic in a rush-hour gridlock, whenever the entire eight-actor ensemble crowds onto the stage. The performances, though a bit broad for so intimate a space, are clever: Mara Beckerman is just irksome enough as the naive heroine, Alan Brasington swishily grand as her abductor, and Merle Louise, Polly Pen and especially Emcee Michael McCormick polished and persuasive as show-must-go-on troupers. The music hall genre may be dead, but Charlotte Sweet is an amiable, spirited resurrection...