Word: calme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current Lebanese crisis, the U.S. is acting as middleman between Syria and Israel, just as it did between Egypt and Israel. While Washington backs Syria's initiative in Lebanon, it has also managed so far to calm Israeli fears regarding the purpose of the Syrian presence there. Although Syrian President Hafez Assad has kept other options open, he has begun to take the first hesitant steps in accepting Sadat's view that only the U.S. can get a settlement for the Arabs...
...Arabs-captured from Egypt, Jordan and Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War. The most troublesome of these areas has been the West Bank of the Jordan River, the home of 650,000 Palestinians and the scene of numerous riots during the past four months. The West Bank was calm last week, and Peres told TIME'S Jerusalem bureau chief Donald Neff and Correspondent David Halevy that he expects the quiet to last. Excerpts from their interview...
After Thursday, the series assumed an eerie calm. No one on either team seemed interested in renewing the aggressions of the opener's fisticuffs. Graig Nettles, one of the protagonists in the assault on Lee, was hit by a pitch on Saturday night. But it was in the bottom of the tenth, and the pitch was so obviously an errant curve ball that Nettles didn't even glare back at the pitcher, Tom House. It was like that through the Yankee victory on Friday and the Bosox's recovery Sunday. Both teams clawed at each other like cats with manners...
Another brief calm ensued until two weeks ago, when Bessell, hounded by British reporters at his home in California, undermined most of the Thorpe defense. He admitted that his blackmail tale had been a "coverup ... to prevent Scott from standing up in court and making statements about Jeremy. The whole idea was to make Scott shut his mouth...
There, the Crimson found some calm water to work in, and moved right out on the Elis with a series of power tens...