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...recruited Hyland for the newly upgraded National Security Council, where Hyland worked primarily on arms control. "SALT succeeded better and more quickly than any of us expected," says Hyland. Nixon and Brezhnev signed a SALT I treaty as the capstone of their first summit in 1972. Kissinger celebrated his 49th birthday in a chandeliered Kremlin conference room, where he was presented a cake in which aides and uncharacteristically cooperative KGB agents had pretended to hide a bulky microphone. "It was the only laugh in the whole ten-day visit," recalls Hyland. "There was no sense of historic breakthrough, no feeling...
...49th Independence Day appearance, the Boston Pops, under the masterful baton of maestro Arthur Fiedler, sparked the evening festivities with a 90-minute concert of marches, popular tunes and classical works...
...Djibouti, through which moves more than half of Ethiopia's foreign trade. Unless he can work out a deal with Somalia's President, Muhamed Siad Barre, Ethiopia may have yet another combat zone on its frontiers when the territory becomes the Republic of Djibouti-Africa's 49th nation -on June...
...only Congressman, Republican Don Young, is tired of environmentalists in Washington protecting so much of Alaska's wilderness from commercial development-and possible pollution. But he is even more furious that they have not done a better job in D.C. His lungs were so accustomed to breathing the 49th state's pure air that the capital's fume-filled version induced a violent coughing spasm-and a hernia. "I'm just not used to breathing this stuff," said Young...
Geographer Henry Gannett, who mapped much of the American West, wrote those words at the turn of the century. But even today, Alaska's scenic grandeur almost defies description. Larger than Texas, Montana and California combined, the 49th state possesses more coastline than the rest of the nation. It boasts North America's tallest mountain, the nation's third longest river and, in addition to Alaskan brown bears, the world's largest land carnivores, a glacier the size of Rhode Island. Purchased from Russia in 1867 for a paltry $7.2 million, Alaska also contains some...