Word: begin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your report "Fears for Begin's Health" [Sept. 24] is regrettable for the serious misinformation it contains. On the basis of the most authoritative examination of the real facts, I am able to inform your readers that contrary to your correspondent's assertions, the Prime Minister did not take a day off from his governmental duties shortly before the Haifa summit with President Sadat; he was not driven to a "secluded laboratory" or to any other location for a physical checkup, and he has never met with a team of "three non-Israeli neurological experts." He could, therefore...
TIME has rechecked all aspects of its story, which was based on what it believed was firsthand knowledge of a meeting between Prime Minister Begin and three consulting neurologists. TIME was apparently misled as to the meeting and regrets the error. TIME stands by its report that for a period of weeks following his stroke on July 19 the Prime Minister's work load was significantly reduced...
...Federal Reserve had set. For instance, interest on six-month Treasury bills, which is used as a guide for regulating interest on certain bank deposits, would have leaped alarmingly. To keep money markets stable, the Fed's so-called Open Market Desk in New York was forced to begin making more and more money available to banks in order to satisfy demand for funds. Indeed, though the Fed's own inflation-cooling monetary growth target was 4.5%, which is just about right, the Open Market Desk's operations after March were actually expanding the money supply at an annual rate...
...treaty. Late this month the committee is expected to endorse the pact; there are eight sure "ayes" and possibly as many as twelve. The only question is how many amendments will be added by the committee and how damaging they will be. Full Senate debate is expected to begin some time in November. Majority Leader Robert Byrd feels that the treaty will gain support if the debate is televised and the public becomes acquainted with the basic issues. But he wants to avoid boring people by limiting discussion to a maximum of four weeks, which would require the Senate...
...statement the night before he left New York, at an informal dinner for heads of U.S. news organizations, including Time Inc. Castro claimed that he once talked Panama's Omar Torrijos out of seizing the Canal when negotiations with the U.S. were stalled; that he is eager to begin pulling his troops out of Africa as soon as the situation in Namibia and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia is settled; and that Zbigniew Brzezinski is personally to blame for "the mess-up" in U.S.-Cuban relations by giving President Carter bad, inflammatory advice...