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...with his Arab neighbors and look for alternative approaches to peace. Many Western diplomats believe that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Fahd's plan, announced two months ago, which offered peace to Israel in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from territory occupied in 1967, was a constructive effort to enlarge the scope of the negotiations...
...infusions of funds are good or bad for the businesses involved and for the U.S. as a whole. As soon as the Kuwaiti proposal was announced, New York Democrat Benjamin Rosenthal, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs, which has been holding hearings on the scope of OPEC investment in the U.S., asked the Treasury to halt the takeover pending an investigation of whether the merger is really in the national interest...
...fire is everywhere. The air-traffic controllers left their jobs in part, they said, because the daily tension tended to scorch out their circuits (the primitive "flee-or-fight" reaction to danger squirted charges of adrenaline into bodies that had to remain relatively immobile, tethered by duty to scope and computer...
...Kenneth Johnson, now 47, a tough West Virginian given to chainsmoking and chewing out reporters, was hired from his job as vice president at the Washington Post to revitalize the paper. His assessment of it at that time: "Provincial. The staff was too small and not aggressive enough. The scope of the coverage was too narrow." Within three years Johnson hired 100 new staffers and eased out dozens of slower-moving veterans (fewer than 50 of the current editorial staff of 203 were there when he arrived); he also started a new morning edition to siphon off some News readers...
DIED. Karl Böhm, 86, august Austrian conductor celebrated for his lucid, authoritative interpretations, especially of Mozart, Wagner and his friend Richard Strauss; of a stroke; in Salzburg, Austria. Despite the international scope of his appearances and recordings, Bohm remained most closely associated with three great native institutions: the Vienna State Opera (at which he served two stints as director), the Salzburg Music Festival and the Vienna Philharmonic. A stickler for detail who shunned showmanship for clarity and fidelity to the score, he once said: "I bring to conducting my own enthusiasm for the music-and then there...