Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After three days in Washington, Teng will begin a jaunt around the country that was mostly designed to satisfy the interests of the scientists in his delegation. Said one U.S. scheduler: "Farms do not seem to do much for him. Technology is his bag." He will be escorted by Leonard Woodcock, who last week was nominated by Carter as U.S. Ambassador to China...
...began cool and overcast, but by early afternoon the skies were a wash of bright blue. In Tehran, the throngs were filling the streets to begin once more their daily demonstrations. If the protesters had looked upward, they would have seen a blue and white Boeing 727 swing over the city, circle once and turn away. The pilot of that plane was Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, taking a long, perhaps last look at the capital of his realm. For years he had lived under the illusion that he was a monarch beloved by his 34 million subjects; for years...
...strengthen the Arabs and put them in a better position to negotiate. The other is that Carter and other international figures should subscribe to the Arab concepts of what is needed for peace. For one thing, I think it would be a good idea for the U.S. to begin talks with the P.L.O...
...objections to the creation of an autonomous Palestinian "entity" on the West Bank: Jerusalem is excluded from the area in which Begin offers self-government. This "greater Jerusalem" amounts to one-fifth of the West Bank. Then there are the Jewish settlements, which take more of our land. Therefore the offer of self-government under these conditions does not appeal to us. Jerusalem does not belong to any of us; it belongs to hundreds of millions of people around the world...
...incorrigible hubcap thief, had just won a full scholarship to Harvard might be in the proper frame of mind. Playwright Frank D. Gilroy (The Subject Was Roses) should have been able to manage something sturdier than this weak story, a trifle about a naive and virtuous American screenwriter-snickers begin here -who is called to Paris to rescue a bogged script. This pilgrim, played amiably and unseriously by Wayne Rogers, arrives with a red, white and blue jogging suit, but soon, heartland morality notwithstanding, is taking his exercise indoors with a beautiful English businesswoman (Gayle Hunnicutt...