Word: britain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, had grown increasingly impatient over what he considered the lagging Israeli response to his peace initiative. Two weeks earlier, special U.S. Ambassador Alfred Atherton Jr. had briefed him on the U.S. position and on Jerusalem's stance in the wake of the foreign ministers' meeting at Britain's Leeds Castle in July. Sadat became enraged by Begin's refusal to make a gesture of conciliation on the Sinai or any further significant concessions for peace. Sadat heatedly declared that the Israeli position was "negative and backward" and that Begin himself was the obstacle to peace...
Last week Chrysler announced that it would sell its automotive subsidiaries in Britain, France and Spain to France's Peugeot-Citroën for $430 million in cash and Peugeot stock. If the deal is approved by the European governments involved-indeed, Britain may torpedo it -Peugeot would become the biggest auto manufacturer in Europe and fourth largest in the world, with sales right behind those of Chrysler itself. Chrysler would get out of the European market completely, except for its 15% share in Peugeot, thus shedding 70% of its foreign production and about a fourth of its worldwide...
...many as 20 names are already being bruited, including those of some non-Italians. Most of the candidates defy easy labeling, for as Britain's Peter Hebblethwaite, veteran Catholic editor and Vatican expert, wrote in The Spectator just before Paul's death: "Any candidate who comes along with a conservative or progressive label must expect to be defeated. The next Pope cannot be the Pope of a faction within the church. He will have to rule from the center and be the servant of unity...
...barest chance in the voting. One is Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, 56, a black priest from Benin (formerly Dahomey), who was consecrated bishop 21 years ago by Pius XII. A tall, gentle man, quick to smile, he is now prefect of the Commission on Justice and Peace. Another is Britain's George Basil Cardinal Hume, 55, a Benedictine monk who in 1976 was plucked from obscurity as Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey to become Archbishop of Westminster. Hume's relative youth and inexperience are likely to count negatively with the pragmatic Cardinals...
Unlike the U.S., neither Canada nor the U.K. has any kind of Freedom of Information Act. But in Canada, the government has promised to propose Freedom-Of-Information Legislation in the fall, and demand for similar legislation is building in Britain. Still, the chance for any real loosening is perhaps illustrated by what happened a few years ago to an internal Canadian government study on ways to increase public access: the Bureaucrats who ordered up the report promptly stamped it CONFIDENTIAL...