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...their talks, Dayan stressed Israel's worries about border security. If Jordan once again controlled the West Bank, he insisted, Palestinian guerrillas might easily slip into Israel to carry out terrorist attacks. The gist of Hussein's reply: "You now control the West Bank. You have your army, police and security services. Have you been able to stop the terrorists? I might even do better than you have done." In the end, Dayan proposed a "functional partition" of the West Bank in exchange for a nonbelligerency treaty. Under such an agreement, the Israelis would maintain Jewish settlements...
Watching Scofield slip effortlessly from dying Volpone to robustious Fox is as fascinating as the unfolding of his intricate schemes. One minute he is the Venetian magnifico, reveling in his gold and his audacity and boasting that even "the Turk is not more sensual in his pleasures than Volpone." The next he is an old man of faltering soprano. "Oh," he says, "I am sailing to my port and I am glad I am so near my haven...
...Boston Red Sox destroyed the Detroit Tigers yesterday, but still managed to slip back in the A.L. East standing, the helpless victims of the Yankees' doubleheader sweep at Toronto...
What seems to be happening. Dean Fox said this week, is that students seek excuses when they're feeling slightly under the weather, instead of using the absence slip as the abnormal route it once...
...Bell's slip shows in a San Antonio courtroom...