Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it all starts back on Dec. 16 in the friendly surroundings of Boston Garden, the young Crimson cagers were 3-3, 1-0 in the lvy League and Playing very shaky basketball...
...chapters of negotiations would not have to be written. But the possibility of an early resumption of serious bargaining was very uncertain, especially given the still high level of distrust that welled up between Washington and Jerusalem following the collapse of the Vance shuttle on the eve of the Dec. 17 treaty-signing goal set at Camp David...
...mysteries about the collapse of the talks on the eve of the Dec. 17 deadline was just why the Begin government dug in so hard against the Sadat proposals. Some Israelis speculate that in addition to his concerns about his country's security, Begin might have felt a need to show toughness at a time when his personal popularity has been slipping. Indeed, only a day before Begin rejected the Egyptian proposals, he had received the results of a new poll showing a decline in his popularity from 68.2% approval in October to just 48.9% in December...
Some of Begin's own colleagues profess surprise at the degree of the Administration's disappointment over the stalled talks. Amazingly, some Israeli officials now say privately that if Washington had made it clear to the two sides how important the Dec. 17 deadline had been to Carter, a treaty agreement might have been reached on schedule. Nothing could illustrate more clearly the character of the present impasse than that fundamental misperception...
...somber granite monument to South Africa's Boer pioneers near Pretoria, at Krugersdorp where the Boers defied the British and re-established their republic, and at other sites across the nation, white Afrikaners gathered to mark the Day of the Covenant, their Thanksgiving. It was on Dec. 16, 1838, that 470 Afrikaner farmers fought off a raid by 15,000 Zulu warriors, killing 3,000 of the attackers without losing any of their own number. On the eve of the battle, the Afrikaners vowed that if God granted them victory they would ever after commemorate...