Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wednesday's meeting with the farmers, Zorinsky got another call from the White House, this time from Carter himself. The President asked him to come to the White House for a talk...
Though Carter has repeatedly underscored the U.S.'s "special relationship" with Israel, his policy initiatives have made it harder and harder for Jews to see the evidence of that commitment. Last March he became the first U.S. President to call for a "homeland" for Palestinians, instantly raising the question of whether he was beginning to favor the creation of a Palestinian state on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Later he joined with the Soviet Union in endorsing "the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." Through it all, the White House has seemed-to Jews at least-to be leaning...
...intimidation continues. Two weeks ago, another Turin police anti-terrorist specialist, Rosario Berardi, 52, was killed, shot seven times while waiting for a streetcar. A phone call from the Red Brigades promised that a woman juror would be next. Four defense lawyers abruptly resigned, and the trial was postponed again. Would it resume? Yes, declared Turin's mayor, Diego Novelli. "This is the only real answer that democracy can give...
...Christian Science Monitor, spinning out four or five articles a week for that Boston-based daily. Every Tuesday, however, he shuts his office door, sits down at his rolltop desk and becomes the pseudonymous TRB, author of the syndicated (50 newspapers) New Republic column that many colleagues call the liveliest, best-researched, most passionately liberal political commentary in town...
...countering 60 Minutes and 20/20 by carving out a weeknight time slot this fall for its 3½-year-old monthly magazine now called Weekend, an eclectic mix of investigative and lighthearted reports. Executive Producer Reuven Frank is casting for someone to share the increased work load with Writer-Reporter Lloyd Dobyns but otherwise plans no major changes. Says Frank: "Carbon copies don't work." One Weekend feature that will have to change when the show goes midweekly is the name. Says an executive who has survived a wave of demoralizing layoffs at NBC: "Knowing the way our company...