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...surprisingly, Begin and Sadat did not really hit it off well during their meetings in Jerusalem and Ismailia. They certainly tried to be as friendly as possible; in Ismailia, for example, Sadat even got behind the wheel of a car and personally drove Begin around the city, pointing out sights. But despite the efforts, the two have had great difficulty communicating. Their misunderstanding of each other's statements on such issues as the status of Israeli troops and settlements in the Sinai has led to bitter recriminations...
...five men strolled so casually toward their getaway car that the tower guard assumed they were departing visitors. But on the next day the fugitives' car had a flat tire. Marine Sergeant John F. Lyons, 24, heading from his home in Yuma, Ariz., to visit relatives in Nebraska, stopped to help. Lyons, his wife Donnelda, 24, and their 22-month-old son Christopher were all shot to death. A niece of the Lyons, Teresa Tyson, 16 (no kin to the Tisons), was wounded in the hip and was later found in the desert, having bled to death...
...gone down further this year. Even in absolute numbers, union membership has changed only slightly through the 1970s. And much of the membership is concentrated in mass-production industries, where union jobs are threatened both by more efficient manufacturing techniques?it takes fewer workers every year to make a car or a ton of steel?and by a transfer of some operations to the largely nonunion Sunbelt. For example, General Motors has opened nine plants in the South since 1973?and kept the United Auto Workers...
Candy Shannon, 25, an administrative assistant with the Alaska laborers' union, has had at least 13¢ an hour paid for her by her employer for more than three years and has made only one claim (she recovered $75 for unauthorized repairs to her car), but insists that she is happy with the plan. Says Shannon: "We would never have been able to afford to go to a lawyer...
Kane brought Mank more work, most notably Pride of the Yankees. But in the decade before his death in 1953 at 55, the boozing increased and the jobs evaporated. His wife Sara would drive around after lunch, searching for his car in the parking lots of Beverly Hills restaurants; when she found it, she would go in and march him away like a truant. He composed a form letter of apology for hostesses of dinner parties he had disgraced...