Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the smoke settles, the miners must hustle down to the 5,900-ft. depth, work out under the cavern where the new rock has fallen, and begin hauling out stone, which is then hoisted onto ore carts for the long trip to the mine head. There it is pulverized, milled down as fine as flour, and the gold is chemically extracted as minute particles of dust...
...second unexpected rebellion, the House refused to pass legislation that would begin carrying out the Panama Canal treaties, which require that the waterway be turned over to Panama...
These were all part of the preparations for Pope John Paul's historic, seven-day American tour, which will begin with his arrival in Boston next Monday. He will celebrate Mass at each major stop -Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Des Moines, Chicago and Washington-and visit St. Patrick's Church in the tiny farm town of Cumming, Iowa. Along the way, John Paul will address seminarians and school students, visit with cardinals and civic dignitaries and attend a huge reception on the White House lawn that threatens to turn into a political rally: the President's invited...
...year ago. But even as Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Egyptian Vice President Hoshi Mubarak lavished praise on President Carter for his role in forging the historic accord, a potential new obstacle to the glacial peace process arose. With exquisitely bad timing, the Cabinet of Premier Menachem Begin chose the eve of the agreement's first birthday to rescind a twelve-year prohibition against land acquisitions by Israeli citizens in the West Bank and Gaza...
...internal divisions handed the Soviet leadership an irresistible opportunity to whipsaw us. The Kremlin would stress its eagerness to begin negotiations on SALT, for example. While the White House would try to gear our response to overall Soviet conduct, the rest of our Government would find innumerable ways, from press leaks to informal hints, to let it be known that it was ready, nay eager, to start talking. Thus the better part of our first year was spent in convincing both the Soviets and our own bureaucracy that we intended to base our negotiations on a calculation of the national...