Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Carter and Secretary of State Vance, the two principals nudged their way reluctantly, morosely toward something that might pass for agreement. One thing that might serve to lure them closer together is the Nobel Peace Prize, which the two are due to receive on Dec. 10. But Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat were slouching toward Oslo, counting every pace and grumbling over every step...
Nonetheless, the vote was a genuine victory for Premier Begin and his Washington negotiators, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. It was Dayan who had phoned Begin, saying "Let's for once be ahead of the Egyptians. Let us be the first to say yes, and leave Sadat to fight his own way." Begin agreed, and the Cabinet fell into line by a vote...
...short, Washington is still holding out for a timetable for West Bank negotiations, to begin within a month of the signing of the peace treaty and to conclude by Dec. 31, 1979. First, however, there is that other timetable: if Sadat and Begin expect the celebration in Oslo to have any real meaning, they had better reach an agreement soon...
FRANCO GAVE US PEACE, JUSTICE AND WORK, proclaimed one of the many signs held aloft by demonstrators. Waiting for the ceremonies to begin, the crowd began to chant, "You notice it! You can feel it! Franco is here!" Then the Spanish national anthem boomed over the loudspeakers, and the Franquistas snapped to attention and put their palms forward in the straight-arm Fascist salute. Bias Piñar, 60, a former Franco appointee to the Cortes and now the leading activist of Spain's diehard rightists, stepped forward from his place beside the dictator's 52-year...
...capacity than they could have hoped to use in the foreseeable future. Says Henri de Bodinat, a Paris-based industrial expert for the Arthur D. Little consulting firm: "One of the basic rules of capitalism is that industrial sectors reach a limit of growth as they mature and then begin to decline. It happened with railroads; it is now happening with steel, and in ten years the auto industry will have problems." What has turned an industrial adjustment into a crisis, in De Bodinat's view, is that the declining industries are not being replaced. "Capitalist economies have lost their...