Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Carter party flew into Riyadh, the prime topic of discussion was the impending resumption of talks between Egypt and Israel at the Prime Minister level. The Saudi Arabian King and Crown Prince remained unwilling to join the peacemaking process until more progress was made on the general principles of any settlement. When the talks turned to energy, the Saudis apparently hinted that they could not hold the current line on oil prices unless something was done to check the sliding foreign value of the U.S. dollar. Their position gave further incentive for dramatic action in Washington...
...halfway up the curving northwest driveway. On winter nights its 105-ft.-tall crown framed the floodlighted White House portico, its graceful branches seeming to cradle the mansion. In summer it rustled softly and spread soothing shade across the lawn. Old 75's trunk was 8 ft. thick at the base. It was the most solid citizen of the front acres. Teddy Roosevelt's children played around it. Mourners leaned on it when they brought John Kennedy's body back to the White House. The televi sion journalists knew a friend when they saw one: John Chancellor...
Possession of the crown has been a nagging issue for more than three decades. The Hungarian government has insisted on its return, while the U.S. has maintained that delivery would have to await improving relations between the two countries. Two months ago, the Carter Administration decided that the time had come. The Communist regime of Party Chief János Kádár has paid its debts, exchanged diplomatic representatives with the U.S. and slightly liberalized its authoritarian rule. "Returning the crown is the correct thing to do," says a State Department official, adding: "It belongs...
...Hungarian-Americans oppose Carter's decision. "The crown can do more good on public display in Hungary, where it is a symbol of historical and religious significance," argues Zoltan Gombos, editor of a chain of Hungarian newspapers based in Cleveland. There has been no accurate opinion poll among the diverse community of America's 3 million Hungarians. But so far, the loudest response has been protest. "The crown was given over to the Americans for trust and safeguarding until Hungary is really free again," says Leslie E. Acsay, president of Hungarian House in New York. "But Hungary...
Public acts fall into several categories: 1) the tragic dullness of missed opportunity-for example, British and German general staffs were mired for years in the Western Front's stalemate of trench warfare; 2) the inconclusive-Wallace Warfield Simpson separated Edward VIII from his crown, but the event belonged more to the history of celebrity than to that of power; 3) magnificent failure-Imre Nagy, for example, in 1956 tried to withdraw Hungary from the Warsaw Pact and then discovered the brutal insistence of things in the Soviet tanks that arrived to iron out his impulse; 4) the satanic...