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...visiting Egypt, he also became the first Secretary of State to call on a nation with which the U.S. has no formal diplomatic relations; Nasser severed them in 1967. In Cairo, Rogers spent nearly seven hours talking with Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad and Premier Mahmoud Fawzi. Afterward, he spent an hour re laxing at the palm-fringed pool of the Nile Hilton Hotel. Refreshed by a night time visit to the Sphinx and the Pyramids, Rogers next morning met with Sadat for two hours and 45 minutes. Flying on to Israel, Rogers held two meetings with Premier Golda Meir...
...ought to have a Vice President and swore Sadat in on the spot. Less than ten months later, the man who had announced the success of Nasser's 1952 revolution was called upon to tell the Egyptian people that their beloved El Rais (The Boss) was dead. Shortly afterward, Sadat was sworn in as the third President in Egypt's history...
...code, it is a disastrous challenge: he must either kill the kalunait or exile himself. "But killing men was not our custom," says Avinga, "and it had not been done in living memory." With no reasonable solution possible, the Eskimo simply withdraws. He is never seen again. Soon afterward, the whalers ferment some berry wine, ply the remaining Eskimos with it and so produce a drunken dance that becomes a bewildered travesty of the first. When the final tragedy comes, it is clear that something as fragile as a principle of civilization-the Eskimos', not the whites...
...detergent." On a dare, an Ohio college student swam across Ohio's super-polluted Cuyahoga River-but only after donning a rubber wet suit and having himself inoculated against diseases that might be lurking in the brownish waters. "It wasn't the cold so much," he said afterward, "but the dirt and smell...
...passages in James Michener's account of the Kent State tragedy are not those about the killing of four students one year ago (he deals with that almost mat-ter-of-factly), but those wherein he records the hate and anger-against a whole student generation-that surfaced afterward. A mother of three Kent State students: "Anyone who appears on the streets of a city like Kent with long hair, dirty clothes or barefooted deserves to be shot." Where did this Ohio woman get such ideas? "I teach at the local high school," she replied. Another mother speaks...