Word: discussants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anyway, I thought we could sorta get together this morning--no, please, don't leave, this will just take a few minutes, I promise--'cuz we got some big things to discuss...
...Charles A. Sanders, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital, defended the MHA yesterday, saying the organization agreed only to discuss the issue of research and education projects with the task force...
...Arabs, of course, were dismayed by the agreement. Carter and Vance immediately began testing the working paper on Arab diplomats, including Egypt's Ismail Fahmy and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam. The U.S. strategy was to discuss the working-paper provisions along with other American proposals that the Israelis had not agreed to, in hopes that Arab reaction might lead to further refinements of a formula for Geneva. Apparently the approach worked. As one leading Arab diplomat told TIME, "There have been more pluses than minuses for us in these sessions...
...toying with ideas for towing icebergs from the Antarctic to arid areas where they could be melted for their pure, fresh water (TIME, March 7). Last week scientists from 18 nations gathered at Iowa State University, in the town of Ames, for an International Conference on Iceberg Utilization to discuss whether such plans could be put to any practical...
Bert Lance is back in Georgia and no longer a threat to the republic, so it should be possible to discuss more coolly how the press treated him. The press has already delivered its own verdict, conceding only that maybe there were a few excesses on its part (TIME, Sept. 19). But since Lance turned out to be guilty of shoddy banking practices, newshounds were not barking up the wrong tree, were they? Jimmy Carter, who hopes to live in wary peace with the press, has resisted all invitations at news conferences to accuse reporters of having driven Lance...