Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alexandria, after a visit to the summer home of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Editor William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Correspondent Kingsbury Smith reported Sadat as saying that "the basic terms for a Sinai settlement have been worked out." Egyptian officials quickly declared that Sadat had been misquoted, and the offending sentence did not appear in local accounts of the Hearst interview. Kissinger, as he left Washington for a European trip that included talks with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, maintained that "we are not anywhere near the point of agreement." Rabin, en route to West Germany on an official visit...
Died. Alvin H. Hansen, 87, economist who pioneered the acceptance of Keynesian theory in the U.S.; in Alexandria, Va. South Dakota-born Hansen was the earliest important American advocate of the then-radical argument set forth by British Economist John Maynard Keynes in his 1936 work, General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money: that government should take an active role in manipulating the economy through tax and spending policy to maintain high employment, even at the cost of mounting debt and added inflation. As a Roosevelt brain-truster during the New Deal, and as a consultant to various Washington agencies...
...palpable sign of the quid pro quo exacted by the Soviets for its Black Sea fleet can be seen on any map of the Middle East. Cruisers bristling with missiles and advanced communications equipment put in regularly at Alexandria; Latakia, Syria; Berbera and Mogadishu, Somalia; and the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean. Though Moscow and Tripoli deny it, Middle East watchers expect the Soviets to soon expand to some prime Libyan military bases in exchange for the weapons deal just concluded...
...customers for surplus weapons. For example, Samuel Cummings, an American who now lives in Monaco, recalls that a few years ago he was able to supply Sudan's mounted cavalry with much needed lances, which he had picked up from Argentine arsenals. With ten weapons-filled warehouses in Alexandria, Va., Cummings today can supply a small army at short order-if Washington gives him an export license...
...snowy morning last week Roger Porter, 28, hauled his lean frame out of bed and into the darkness of his Alexandria, Va., apartment. It was 5:45. He struggled through a few pushups, stood groggily erect and then touched his toes while his wife Ann scurried to dress and prepare breakfast...