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...little-noticed case that has stirred a furor of protest in the Arab world. Ziad Abu Eain, 23, a Palestinian Arab and citizen of Jordan, was extradited from the U.S. to Israel two weeks ago to stand trial on charges that he set off a bomb in the Israeli resort city of Tiberias in May 1979 that killed two youths and injured 36 others. Abu Eain (rhymes with plain) and his supporters have fought a 2½-year battle in U.S. courts against the extradition order, and the controversy refuses to fade away...
...turn absurd as soon as the man in the gray flannel suit began turning up in denim and sneakers-with no loss of prestige. The absurdity had clearly become utter by the year now ending: it was the year in which the President of the U.S. had to resort to the jelly bean for a symbol that set him apart from other folks...
...really whether the individual has been accused falsely or been treated fairly. Preventing damage to the President transcends all considerations. Bo Callaway, former Secretary of the Army and Gerald Ford's campaign manager, understood the code. Falsely accused of conflict of interest over a Colorado ski resort development, Callaway resigned-and then cleared himself of the charges...
Speculation differed on whether the expected protests would stay peaceful or spill over into an all-out confrontation between union and government. In any case, Poland's leaders were expected to do everything possible to handle the crisis themselves before they would resort to calling on the Soviet Union or other Warsaw Pact allies to provide "fraternal assistance...
...motel in Prairie View, Ill., that offers apartments, roomettes and imperial suites to guest cats for up to $6.50 a day: letters sent by the vacationing owners are read to the animals. California, as always a seismographic chart of late-breaking obsessions, now has a cat resort, a cat department store, a cat rest home, a rent-a-cat agency, a cat dating service, cat psychics, cat acting coaches and a special annual contest to judge cats' meows. And, of course, there is television, with its commercials featuring cats in caterwauling unison or solitary hunger. The ads offer...