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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...Most important is the question of motivation. Faced with the fact of their mother's corpse and the fear of being dispersed as orphans by the authorities, the children act not out of evil but according to the relentless logic of expediency. What they do is less a comment on them than on the hairbreadth that separates the civilized from the unspeakable...
...this article were an isolated incident, it would perhaps not necessitate comment. But such blatantly discriminatory articles (most of which go unchallenged) make one wonder about the way history has been written, where certain agents of history, such as women, are invisible to the male chroniclers...
This article emphasized the worst elements of Southie and ignored the positive factors that give rise to a tightly-knit community. The authors failed to comment on such things as the extremely high electoral turnout that the politically active people of South Boston continually demonstrate. Strong community and religious involvement keep this neighborhood alive. If this style of journalism had been written about a black community, it would have been justly labelled as racist in that it stereotyped a community. The only difference is that Messrs. deMilo and Levenson are stereotyping a white working-class community instead of a black...
During his campaign, New York Governor Hugh Carey fended off questions about whether he would marry Anne Ford Uzielli, the divorced daughter of Henry Ford II, with the comment, "If I don't win, who will want me?" But in his victory speech he alluded to what he called "a new campaign." Mrs. Uzielli merely smiled at Widower Carey, who has twelve children. Said Carey later: "This one is not going to be quite so much uphill as I might expect." Said his chief political strategist, David Garth: "This is one campaign I haven't been asked...