Word: actualizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Little Help. The Secretary said that his latest Middle East trip was merely to make soundings. He will return next month for actual negotiations based on what he learns now. If there is no movement in March, he may give up the effort. The great uncertainty was how much maneuvering room Kissinger had. The Israelis have expressed a willingness to pull back their armed forces from the strategic Mitla and Giddi passes in the Sinai Peninsula and return the Abu Rudeis oilfields to Egypt. In exchange they want a declaration of nonbelligerency from Egypt-something that Sadat cannot give until...
...disparate feuding fiefdoms held together by the military power of deposed Emperor Haile Selassie and the aristocratic Amhara tribe of the Central Highlands. Last week, as fighting flared across the northern province of Eritrea, the old empire appeared to be on the verge of civil war and perhaps of actual disintegration...
...marriage, when she would thread a string from the bedroom to the front door of their little apartment and affix a note for Brad: "Roses are red, violets are blue/ Follow this string to an extra-special screw." Other recollections include birth ("Funny," Betty ruminates, "how you forget the actual pain and power of birth -maybe so you'll try again"), the confession of Brad's first infidelity ("I forgive you," Betty responds promptly), and daily rounds like picking the kids up at school ("You know," Betty confesses to the family mutt...
...intervention in the event of a strangling oil embargo. Two such experts with access to the thinking of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have pieced together a composite of these alternatives and filtered it out to other analysts. The composite represents high-level rumination rather than a final, actual blueprint. But it is couched in considerable detail and shows a knowledge of up-to-date military tactics and a "roughneck's" expertise in oil production...
...flagrant violation" of the credit act's provisions designed to ensure accuracy and disclosure, said U.S. Judge H. Kenneth Wangelin. In what the current Privacy Report of the American Civil Liberties Union calls a "precedent-setting decision," Wangelin ordered O'Hanlon to pay Millstone $2,500 for actual damages, $12,500 for attorneys' fees and $25,000 in punitive damages. O'Hanlon thought that too harsh and is appealing...