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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, the Arabs hope that Washington, which has been following the Palestinian moves from a distance, may decide not to veto the Arafat proposal but abstain instead. They are encouraged by the fact that the U.S., which has held Palestinian groups at arm's length until they recognized Israel, has begun unofficially at least to bend this policy to make some contacts. During his visit to Geneva last month, for instance, U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young met and briefly chatted with Daud Barakat, the P.L.O.'s representative there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Palestinians: A New Unity | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...borrow from a correspondent bank for the same purpose? It is clearly time for a new law that would shift the burden of proof, and forbid big banks to make personal loans to officers of cor respondent banks unless both parties can prove that the transaction is an "arm's length" deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personal Loans And Bank Ethics | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...killed, said she was walking her dog Snowball near her apartment at 2:30 a.m. on the night of the murder. A young man "who walked strange, like a cat" approached her on the sidewalk, looked directly into her face, then passed. She said he held his right arm down stiffly, as though he were carrying something partly up his sleeve. Five minutes later she heard shots and the wail of a car horn. Next day, learning of the double shooting, she was certain the passing stranger had been the killer. When detectives questioned her, she recalled another vital detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sam Told Me To Do It... Sam Is the Devil | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...need for cajolery. Joyce was so eager to sell his masterpiece in the U.S. that, in his haste to make the appointment, he was run over by a taxicab. When Cerf met him, he was "sitting with a bandage around his head, a patch over his eye, his arm in a sling and his foot all bound up and stretched out on a chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Publishing Was His Line | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...along so well that they finished off six bottles of champagne between poses. Dolly, 31, who admires musclemen "for their spunk and endurance," was very impressed with Arnold. Arnold, 30, found Dolly "the nicest weight I have lifted in a long time." Says he: "I did a one-arm curl with her. She was about 110 Ibs., good resistance. My biceps felt very good after that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 15, 1977 | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

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