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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...departure threw the talks themselves into confusion just when President Carter's Special Envoy Robert Strauss was due in London this week in an effort to provide some momentum. It was unclear what effect Dayan's resignation would have, but U.S. and Arab diplomats both regretted the loss of one of Israel's most flexible and imaginative leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israel's Dayan Walks Out | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...less important area of negotiations, the U.S. was preparing a new diplomatic effort. This time the main goal was to turn the jittery ceasefire in Lebanon into a lasting truce. The hope is that United Nations and Lebanese forces can gradually take over the tenuous peacekeeping tasks performed over the past three years by Syria's 30,000-man occupying force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israel's Dayan Walks Out | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...figured our top three could beat out either Yale's or Princeton's," McCurdy said. "The meet rested on whether our second line would be enough to stand up to the others and they really came through. This was our strongest effort as a team all year without a doubt...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Men Claim Big 3 Cross Country Title | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

...that he is not really a member, that he had simply donated "six or seven hours of my time," and that he didn't want to "cause the group any trouble." Days later Goetz explained that Walsh definitely was not a member, although the group "appreciated (his) time and effort in clarifying the pro-condominium viewpoint." Walsh may not be a member, whatever that legally means, but his ties with the group seem strong. An interesting footnote: Walsh, a trustee of Harlow Properties, was involved in several of the condominium sales to group members...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Style of Things to Come | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

...scientists studied people adopted at birth in an effort to distinguish between environmental and genetic influences. The rate of alcoholism among adopted Danish males with an alcoholic biological parent was almost four times that of a control group...

Author: By Monique A. Sullivan, | Title: Medical Research Links Alcoholism To Genetic Factors | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

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