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...last week, air raid sirens across Israel sounded a single, high-pitched "all clear" blast for two minutes, and the country came to a standstill. On Jaffa Road in the heart of Jerusalem, pedestrians froze in their tracks. Lounging border troops sprang to attention. Vehicles braked to a halt in the middle of intersections. Bus passengers rose to their feet-as did people all across the nation. In stores, restaurants and offices, conversations stopped, forks were put down, typewriters and business machines hushed. It was Israel's Memorial Day. In the silent vigil, Israelis remembered the dead...
...final formal meeting of the year, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) last night voted to recommend that the Croporation send a letter to the Xerox Corporation urging the company to halt its South African subsidiary's sales to the military and police...
...Corporation this week abstained for the second year in a row on a shareholder resolution, unanimously approved last week by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), that would halt a Mobil Corporation subsidiary's sales to the South African military and police...
...Corporation yesterday voted to abstain on a Mobil Corporation shareholder resolution that would require Mobil to halt sales to the military and police in South Africa though the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) recommended unanimously last week that the Corporation approve the resolution...
...cervical spine, and said the pain was "like the exposed nerve in a tooth multiplied by ten." As he had done in 1967, when the film version of Camelot was made, Burton relinquished his throne to Irishman Richard Harris. Last week Burton successfully underwent an operation to halt his spinal degeneration, and Harris, 50, began a reign scheduled to last through the lusty month of May and into June...