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...agreed on certain steps to keep the momentum in the peace process." He did not say what those steps were. Carter's own comments were designed to be ambiguous enough to bridge the current Egypt-Israeli stances on Palestine and provide negotiating room. As soon as he was aloft again en route to Paris, Carter telephoned Israel Premier Menachem Begin to report encouragingly on his conversation with Sadat...
...wings of Air Force One, glistening in their new coat of Glass Wax, have swooped through the skies of Eastern Europe and ancient Persia. Jimmy Carter's Georgia gang have dined aloft on steak and eggs, chewed Doublemint, and sent home their first dispatches from their airborne odyssey...
...huge Coors advertising balloon floated aloft in the company's home state of Colorado last month, football fans booed in Denver's Mile High Stadium. Reason: for nearly nine months the Adolph Coors Co. brewery, the world's largest, has been the target of an unusual strike and boycott that are supported by a formidable, if somewhat incongruous alliance of activists that includes women's groups, Chicanos, homosexuals and civil libertarians. The issue is not wages but the right of privacy. In fact, the average salary at the company, which has been controlled for three generations...
After the vote favoring abortion, angry pro-family delegates staged a demonstration and held aloft giant color photographs of aborted fetuses. Shaking and weeping, one anti-abortion woman cried: "I never thought they would come to this. It's murder!" Said another: "It will be old people next...
Triumphantly holding aloft a second-base bag just torn from the San Diego Stadium ground by his exultant teammates, Left Fielder Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals last week celebrated the breaking of one of baseball's most enduring records. Collecting the 893rd stolen base of his career in a game with the San Diego Padres, he eclipsed the record established by Ty Cobb in 1928. Cobb took 3,033 games and 24 seasons (most of them with the Detroit Tigers) to set his mark; Brock needed only 2,376 games and fewer than 16 full seasons...