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...last week summoned a Cabinet meeting to review counterterror precautions. At the same time, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the political umbrella of the guerrilla movement, acknowledged a serious split in its ranks. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the second largest group in the P.L.O. after Fatah, withdrew from the P.L.O. executive council after bitterly attacking the moderate leadership of Yasser Arafat (see box). Another fedayeen group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -General Command, has also threatened to leave. The P.L.O. central council, which functions as a kind of parliamentary committee, was alarmed enough...
...announcement also spared the nation-and Teddy-a prolonged controversy over Chappaquiddick, a lingering but explosive issue that, politically, was probably the chief reason why Kennedy withdrew. There remain many unanswered questions about the 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Kennedy's car; Watergate revived them as a challenge to the Senator's moral fitness and the evenhandedness of the press. The problem was expressed in nasty bumper stickers: NOBODY DROWNED AT WATERGATE. The fact that several publications had renewed investigations into Chappaquiddick may well have affected the tuning of Kennedy's announcement (see story page...
...because it has borrowed large amounts abroad (about $4 billion) and because Arab oil producers have deposited an estimated $2.5 billion in London's banks. The nation could be brought to the edge of bankruptcy if it started encountering difficulty renewing its loans or if the Arabs suddenly withdrew their deposits...
Minor Cuts. NBC shrugged off the criticism. The movie had been screened by the network's Standards and Practices Department, which ordered only two minor cuts in the rape scene. (After seeing the cut version, however, several sponsors withdrew from the show.) NBC executives say that all the affiliates saw Born Innocent well in advance. "TV's not all Make Room for Daddy now," says one network spokesman. "I'm sure we're going to be bothering those people in Nashville again...
There were odysseys in which the Sirens are silent. Without paper, he conceived stories the intricacy and strangeness of which might have earned him a nod of approval from Dickens, the Pentateuch and Tolstoy of England. Before paper his imagination withdrew like a snail whose horns had been touched...