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...Grandmother. Though illiterate, she is a haven for everybody; she solves their problems and cures their sick with old Arab concoctions of medical herbs unrivaled in our village or in any of the neighboring ones. We buy a big jar of treacle and return home. Behind her I trot along???a small dark boy, barefooted and wearing a long Arab dress over a white calico shirt?with eyes fixed on the jar of treacle, a treasure won at last...
...still on Capitol Hill, spending harried hours pushing through major bills and tying up loose ends. To keep the Social Security system solvent, the House passed a measure that would triple taxes by 1987?and will alienate a lot of voters long before that. Whether the Senate would go along???or even face up to the unpopular issue? before adjournment was questionable. The House also served bold notice that it would not even consider a routine military-aid appropriation for South Korea unless the Seoul government began to cooperate with the congressional investigators of influence peddling on Capitol Hill...
...will place his left palm on the Bible and raise his right hand. Then, in the now familiar soft and even tones of south Georgia, Jimmy Carter, 52, will take the oath that will make him?just as he was saying all along???the 39th President...
...guerrillas might be hiding there. At dusk, the school caravan reached Ma'alot, and the travelers bedded down in sleeping bags in the town's three-story concrete school building. Students and teachers took turn staying awake along with the guards. But the weapons that the adults had brought along???an Uzi submachine gun and some bolt-action rifles?were left in a truck outside; a Ministry of Education rule forbids firearms in any building where students are assembled...
...deputy at the Justice Department and to whom he was greatly indebted for his promotion; and 2) Dean, who had been Kleindienst's own deputy from February 1969 to July 1970. Full control of the Justice Department probe was turned over to Henry Petersen, who had handled it all along???but with no great distinction in its limited early phase...