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...should not enter into the negotiations until some measure of autonomy is in effect. Meanwhile, Israel was about to become the target of renewed political pressure in the rest of the Muslim world. Sheiks, ministers and kings of some 36 Islamic countries began gathering in the Saudi Arabian mountain resort of Taif for this week's Islamic conference, which promises to be a sumptuous as well as a polemical affair. The Saudis have poured a fortune into rebuilding the city with marble and glass at a cost of more than $1 billion. Among other obvious concerns, such...
With little public notice, a judge in Switzerland, responding to claims lodged by Swiss lawyers representing Iran's central bank, ordered the Shah's villa in the ski resort of St. Moritz to be held under a writ of attachment barring its sale or alteration. The Shah had paid some $2 million for it in 1968. Iranian officials claimed that they have gained similar court sanctions against 13 other assets of the Shah's family in Switzerland, including a $440,000 Geneva apartment owned by Princess Ashraf, the Shah's sister...
...Rockies, where the dastardly high is centered, have also remained especially dry. The best snow at many ski resorts in the region is manmade. At Colorado's Crested Butte, in fact, there is a special type of man-made snow. One day last week resort operators there enlisted a band of Ute Indians to do a snow dance. Sure enough, there was an unexpected snowfall by morning...
Nicaragua, whose leftist Sandinistas have made no secret of their support for the F.M.L.N. guerrillas, was helping in other ominous ways. El Cuco, a beachside resort in the eastern part of El Salvador, witnessed an invasion by 100 guerrillas in five 30-ft. wooden boats; they almost certainly came from Nicaragua. Government forces claimed to have captured one boat and bottled up the invaders in the beach area, killing 52 of them...
Thrusting out of the sea bottom, the hand on the sinewy forearm was reaching beyond the abyss of time. Two swimmers spotted it while diving off a beach at Riace Marina, a resort in Reggio Calabria on the toe of the Italian boot. Their find was not far offshore (about 325 yds.) or in very deep water (less than 26 ft.). But it turned out to be astonishingly distant in age: about 24 centuries, in fact. Experts quickly uncovered a 990-lb. life-size bronze figure of a warrior. Near by they found a second bronze of similar heft...