Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next stop, Riyadh, Carter means to encourage Saudi Arabia's king Khalid and Crown Prince Fahd to continue their efforts to keep oil prices stable. Last month Saudi Arabia was a sponsor of the six-month lid on price increases that the OPEC nations approved at their conference in Caracas. Further, the President wants to urge the Saudi leaders to use their pursestring powers over poorer Arab countries to drum up more support for Middle East peace negotiations in Cairo. Khalid and Fahd will almost certainly seek assurances that the U.S. will press Israel for a solution that...
...their security is, to us, our own security." At the end of the day, the American party will split up. Secretary of State Vance, accompanied by a delegation of Senators and Congressmen, is scheduled to head for Budapest, where he will return to Hungarian officials the thousand-year-old Crown of St. Stephen, which has been in U.S. hands since the end of World War II. Carter meanwhile will leave for home...
...Mary Rose Oakar. "It's a great blunder committed by President Carter," protested Polish-Hungarian World Federation President Karol Ripa. These-and worse-outcries, along with demonstrations at the White House gates, were raised again last week by Hungarian-Americans at Carter's decision to return the Crown of St. Stephen to Budapest. The legendary symbol of Hungarian nationhood, the priceless gold crown is fitted with rubies, and displays exquisitely detailed enamel portraits. Scholars say that Pope Sylvester II gave the treasure to Hungary's first King, Stephen I, for a Christmas gift in the year...
...that anyone else under John Clark's flaccid direction is giving her much acting competition. Robert LuPone's Dauphin is such a prancing cipher that one fears the crown that Joan se cures for him at Rheims Cathedral will melt his head. Paul Sparer, as the Inquisitor, gives a saturnine gravity to the renowned and convoluted speech on heresy, but his plea for justice with mercy is a trifle smarmy. Only Philip Bosco as the English Earl of Warwick conveys nobility in voice and bearing...
Larousse Gastronomique (Crown; $25). A handsome, one-volume encyclopedia for practical information and good reading...