Word: east
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...salads and sin wildly when they plunge into a dollop of flan with ice cream. They ponder things like advice about Son Jack's grain-elevator business and the guest lists for approaching state dinners; then Rosalynn inevitably asks for the latest information on SALT or the Middle East. At one lunch, Rosalynn got the surprise of her life when the President revealed that just minutes earlier, agreement had been reached with China for normalization of relations, a secret she kept until the announcement the next day. A Rosalynn lunch with Jimmy helped restore tentative cuts in the budget...
...very soon. Three weeks after Amin fled from Kampala, Uganda's capital, bands of Nubian mercenaries from southern Sudan continued to roam the countryside, looting and killing. A particularly outrageous atrocity occurred on the day after Easter. At Jinja, an industrial town 50 miles east of Kampala, pro-Amin troops seized a group of 130 Catholic parishioners arriving by bus with a black bishop from the town of Mbale. The parishioners were herded into a stockade at a nearby army barracks and mowed down by machine-gun fire; none survived...
...damn fool enough to think I know anything about the Middle East." Thus, with a typically guileful display of candor, Robert S. Strauss, 60, assessed his qualifications for the diplomatic assignment passed on to him last week by Jimmy Carter: to be the nation's superambassador for the second stage of Middle East peace negotiations, which begin in 3½ weeks...
...serious labor shortage in industrialized areas, productivity has been sagging, and Soviet planners have yet to cope with serious management problems. Says Dimitri Simes, director of Soviet studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "The Soviets find themselves with natural resources in the East, population growth in the Central Asian republics and the bulk of their industry in European Russia, and they don't know how to put the three together...
...thus allowing the arrangement to escape an acrimonious debate in the French parliament. After Chirac's resignation in 1976, Giscard "began having second thoughts about the contract. He feared France would not only be contributing to nuclear proliferation but would be blamed for intensifying tensions in the Middle East. But breaking the $350 million contract and risking Iraqi ire was unthinkable. Iraq is France's second largest supplier of oil, and the reactor deal has also helped keep the French trade deficit from spiraling higher...