Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Begin left the White House, Carter almost immediately held a meeting with a delegation of key Congressmen, at which he pushed his case for the package sale of airplanes to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel. Congress can block the plane sales if both chambers agree to do so, but the White House claims confidence that this will not happen. No vote is expected until the Panama Canal issue is resolved next month...
Relations between the U.S. and Venezuela are generally good, but Carter could have a trickier time of it in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil's military government was angered when the U.S. unsuccessfully tried to block the sale of West German nuclear reactors to Brazil. Nor does Brazil like Carter's position on human rights, which is considerably at variance with the generals' view of how to run things...
...Israel with the delivery of four times that number of F-15s to Saudi Arabia, and 50 of the less advanced but also deadly F-5E Tiger II jets to Egypt. By bundling them in a single export package. Carter has made it exceedingly difficult for Congress to block the Arab sales without preventing the Israeli delivery as well. This has infuriated many Jews, who see the arrangement as gravely jeopardizing Israeli security...
...floundering doors, and the next customers who visit the place will be the bulldozers. When they get through, New York City will have a big hole in the ground at the corner of 50th and Sixth. No more huge lines (those disappeared years ago), no more Rockettes, no more block-long candy counters...
...increased security measures were prompted by the disclosure that several women students have found "threatening notes in block printing" in carrels at the library in recent weeks. Harvard police are presently investigating the threats...