Word: coasters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These concerns added an extra element of urgency to Vance's shuttle. His last-minute attempt to meet the deadline produced a week of roller-coaster diplomacy. Carrying a battered briefcase bulging with notes and drafts of possible compromises, Vance was typically cautious as he flew into Cairo a week ago Sunday. He knew that he would have to get concessions from the Egyptians and that Sadat was going to try to rewrite parts of the draft treaty. Vance was determined to resist because any tampering with even minor points of a text in the late stages of talks risks...
...payment in gold or dollars. They are taken to ports where they hand over the rest of the exit price, then are ferried to a ship just outside Vietnamese territorial waters. At least two such vessels have been used. One is the Hai Hong, the other a 900-ton coaster, the Southern Cross, which ran aground in Indonesian waters last Sept. 21 carrying more than 1,200 passengers...
That did not sound promising, considering that nine weeks have passed since the Gamp David accords. But if nothing else, Sadat's good news-bad news comment proved anew, in case any such demonstration was needed, that Middle East peace negotiations are still on a roller coaster of moods ranging from the rhapsodic to the bleak. A few days after Cairo officials had been saying privately that the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel was almost wrapped up, they were hinting that the talks were on the verge of collapse...
...Harvard's misfortune to run up against New England's number-one team as it tries to hoist itself up in this roller coaster season. Although Harvard played a sound game, moving the ball down the wings, Dartmouth's diamond defense, which has allowed just eight goals in eight games, prevented Harvard from getting close...
...scrambled back for one last attempt at salvaging the roller-coaster summer, hitting for two runs in the eighth but stranding runners at first and second base in that frame, and first and third in the ninth...