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Impressive as these advances were, the P.L.O. nonetheless fell short of its goal of making 1975 the "Year of Escalation and Unity." To Arafat's dismay, Egypt's Sadat signed the second Sinai accord with Israel, even though it made no reference to the Palestinian problem...
Climaxing a torrent of anti-American speeches at the convention, she charged that "some powers that had tasted success in their destabilization game in Chile nurtured similar designs against India." In response to this implicit attack on U.S. policies, Washington officially expressed its "concern and dismay" to New Delhi. "Mrs. Gandhi genuinely believes that Indian society must be transformed," says one veteran diplomat in New Delhi. "But, all the disclaimers to the contrary, she probably also believes that she is the only person who can do it." For the time being at least, many of India's 600 million...
Several Faculty members have expressed dismay over the closing of the University's libraries over most of Christmas vacation, Myron P. Gilmore '36, acting chairman of the History Department, reported yesterday...
...this whole list many Americans react with a mixture of boredom and dismay. Ford-Humphrey? Reagan-Carey? The leadership of the free world...
Every year around this time, tire dealers across the country look to the sky prayerfully. The sooner heavy snow falls, the more snow tires they can expect to sell. To their dismay, recent winters have been unusually mild; on top of that, seven states have banned the metal-studded tires that accounted for 40% of all snow tires sold in the early 1970s. More states may well enact similar laws on the ground that the metal studs tear up highway surfaces. As a result, snow-tire sales have melted steadily, from 19.1 million tires in 1972 to 17.5 million...