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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration has sought to assure the Israelis that their vital interests will be protected. Extending a five-year commitment made in 1975, the U.S. has pledged to provide Israel with oil for 15 years if the Israelis on their own should be unable to acquire sufficient supplies, either from Egypt or on the world market. Late last week the Administration concluded a bilateral memorandum of agreement with Israel under which the U.S. promises to "consult" with Israel-that is, to give it some sort of support-if Egypt should violate the terms of the peace treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Bombs and Ugly Rhetoric | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...Chairman" is fine, but ''Chairperson" isn't, according to one of the language's most respected arbiters, the Oxford University Press, whose new 770-page paperback dictionary states crisply; "The word chairman may be used of persons of either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chairman's Lib | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...answers: 1) Either 1960s or 1960's is correct; 2) "a U.S. Representative"; 3) "Smiths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Grammarphone | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...order?' 'No, nothing.' 'And what about my sentence? Has it been quashed?' 'No, it remains in force.' 'So, I'm sort of a prisoner on holiday, on vacation?' 'Sort of.' " "They don't ever know either how to jail or release you properly," concludes Bukovsky. The Inspector General could not have said it better. -R.Z. Sheppard

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man Who Could Only Say Nyet | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

Most Rhodesian-based correspondents have either been forbidden by their editors to carry guns, or would be if the home office found out they were doing so. Some reporters prefer to remain unarmed. "If you're captured, having a gun is a death warrant," says the Los Angeles Times's Jack Foisie. But the armed correspondents maintain that such ethical hairsplitting is irrelevant to their workaday peril. Says one: "Anyone who can sit in an editorial chair and demand that reporters ride around the Rhodesian countryside unarmed should come here and try it for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Bang Gang | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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