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...disengagement talks in Washington; at Syrian insistence, each will meet separately with U.S. officials. Apart from a peremptory Syrian rejection of Israel's first disengagement proposals (which involved P.O.W. exchanges, limited Israeli withdrawal and a possible U.N. buffer zone between the two armies), nothing much has happened to spur the talks forward...
...Shakespeare's satire cut even deeper than Gay's, pointing not just to people's failure to live up to their ideals, but to the sickness at the heart of ideals that rank continence above saving lives and spur people to die and kill and sacrifice themselves, not for a future where that will be less necessary but in a hopeless quest for a merely personal righteousness. The play is about the inevitable injustice of middle-class justice, which measures justice out as though it were possible to measure people's lives by absolute, fixed units like the monetary standards...
...spur U.J.A. donations in the U.S., Israeli officials had sent the "young leadership group" on a supposedly routine bus trip through the captured Sinai territory that Israel is about to relinquish. After a picture-taking session at a United Nations checkpoint, however, the bus strayed too far down the Ismailia-Tassa road and into Egyptian hands...
...promised support for most of her son's record. She has assured him that she will continue his innovative environmental programs but will avoid "putting my foot in my mouth"-a reference to the Governor's outspokenness. McCall said that any discouragement from him "would only spur her on," and sat back to watch the other candidates struggle with the motherhood issue. As for Mrs. McCall, she is campaigning at her own pace. When a reporter arrived at her Portland home for an interview, he was sent away. The candidate was taking a bath...
This upset victory seemed to spur on both Lindner and Ingard in the semi-final found, for they dispatched with amazing ease the Princeton team of Dutton and Fisher...