Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mission involved no major technological breakthrough. In a sense, both Apollo and its 20-story Saturn IB booster are antiques, having been built some nine years ago for the moon program. Still, unexpected gremlins can turn up in even the most time-tested equipment and procedures, witness the repeated difficulties encountered by the three Skylab missions...
Letteri said the negotiations are "stalemated as usual," but said he hopes for a breakthrough soon...
...world Christendom have held out against ordaining women to full clergy rank: Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism. The Anglicans have been wrestling over the issue, however, and last week the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada (membership: 1 million) voted overwhelmingly to allow female priests. The breakthrough in Canada is bound to make waves in other provinces of the Anglican Communion, notably the U.S. Episcopal Church, which is deep in an emotionally charged debate over women priests and faces a decision on the matter at its convention next year...
Meeting newsmen at the conclusion of the White House talks, the Premier wearily discouraged speculation that any Middle East peace breakthrough was imminent. "I don't believe I have received all the answers I want to know," he said. "Egypt has not facilitated the movement toward peace." Rabin was disappointed to learn from Ford that Sadat was not yet willing to make one political concession on which Israel insists -namely, a definite commitment to a specific, long-range time framework for any second-stage disengagement in Sinai. Egypt would like any extensions of the interim agreement on the Sinai...
...until he noticed that the raw eggs were in the juice. With this came a bowl of brown soup. What, Robitzer gently inquired, was that? Menudo, was the reply, or tripe soup. Robitzer settled for coffee. Conversation did not come easily in the beginning, but eventually they made a breakthrough. Says Robitzer: "Somehow we managed to talk about everything from police brutality to life in Mexico...