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...jumped 203% to the present $760, more than twice that of Egypt. The Soviet Union's stranglehold on Syrian imports and exports of the early 1970s has been broken, and today the U.S., Europe and Japan do more business in Syria than does Moscow. Assad is also trying to broaden his country's foreign political alignments. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem, which Assad warned would be a fateful mistake, is still viewed in Damascus as an "outrageous disloyalty by a selfish man." Nonetheless, Assad privately tried to modulate the anti-Egyptian anger of such radical Arab states...
...buildings under way around the world?all to be paid for in full before dedication. All Mormon young men are supposed to devote two years to missionary work between their education and their careers. For many of the 26,500 now in the field, the task will broaden horizons and hone speaking and selling skills for advancement in business...
...travel to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Israel this week to lay the groundwork for more talks. Vance himself will return to the Middle East to chair another meeting between the Israelis and the Egyptians in early August. Washington hopes to synthesize the positions of the two sides and broaden the next session to include defense and legal experts who could then carry the talks on into the details of withdrawal, new borders and security guarantees...
...serve simultaneously on the 14-member Politburo and the Secretariat, Kulakov rode out the disastrous grain harvest of 1975 and was reportedly being groomed to succeed Brezhnev. Named Party Secretary for Agriculture in 1965 and Politburo member in 1971. Kulakov resigned his Secretariat post in 1976 to broaden his expertise. That year he delivered the keynote address at the traditional celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution, and his attendance at Yugoslavia's congress last month confirmed his good standing as a Brezhnev prot...
...Since the world of medicine has been so white, it is important for these students to relate to a black physician, in order to broaden their perspective," Poussaint added...