Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the Middle East." Thus, with a typically guileful display of candor, Robert S. Strauss, 60, assessed his qualifications for the diplomatic assignment passed on to him last week by Jimmy Carter: to be the nation's superambassador for the second stage of Middle East peace negotiations, which begin in 3½ weeks...
...room and walk out later with neither of the two satisfied but both having stepped a lot closer together." One Texas-size question: Will the cajoling style that served Strauss so well in smoke-filled rooms at Democratic conventions have the same effect on Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin...
Three night watchmen who patrol the cluttered yards of an industrial plant in the French Riviera town of La Seyne-sur-Mer were about to begin their 3 a.m. rounds when they heard five dull thuds from one of three unmarked rectangular hangars on the factory grounds. Rushing to the building, they found its alarm system disconnected but its hermetically sealed doors unopened. No intruder was spotted scaling the yard's 6-ft. walls...
...blinded for three years, a plane crash ten years later in which she and Edward Kennedy were injured, and the trauma of her alcoholic father's suicide (after he murdered her stepmother), to face terminal cancer with a public vow "to value life, to cherish it and to begin my long postponed dream of being useful in my own right...
...embarrassment of riches comes when oilmen are battling to keep as much as possible of the increased profit that will begin flowing to the industry at the end of the month, when Jimmy Carter starts phasing out domestic crude oil price controls. As a result of controls, the average price of crude in the U.S. is $9.45 per bbl., vs. the world level of $14.55; removing the ceiling will increase oil company revenues by perhaps as much as $ 13 billion over the next 28 months...