Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the most crucial single event in the secret diplomacy of this period was the decision by the Israeli government in July 1977 to advise Egypt, Sudan and Saudi Arabia of some important information that Israeli intelligence had learned: namely, that leftist Arab extremists, trained in Libya and supported by that country's radical leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, were plotting to overthrow the moderate governments in Cairo, Khartoum and Riyadh. Acting on the information provided by Israel, those governments quickly arrested a number of the plotters. Sadat went further: he launched heavy commando raids against...
Castro had spent two years planning the event, one of the few socialist spectaculars that offer the younger generation a good time. He also saw the festival as a good place to justify his country's interventions in Africa. His policy needed a bit of bolstering, to be sure: at a nonaligned Foreign Ministers summit in Belgrade last week, some delegates attacked Moscow and Havana-rather than Western imperialism-as the current threat to Third World neutrality...
Another aspect of the story presented quite a different journalistic problem: London's Associated Newspapers had bought the exclusive rights to publicize the event from the parents, and the doctors maintained complete secrecy as well. Under the direction of London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo, TIME'S correspondents nonetheless managed to turn up firm facts on the sequestered Brown family and Drs. Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards...
...Origins 78, the fourth U.S. national war gamers' conference. For 72 hours, some 3,600 hobbyists, exhibitors and camp followers milled and argued, chattered and competed in a giant tournament. To Paul Wood, 35, chief conference organizer and president of the hosting club, Metro Detroit Gamers, the event was as simple as a military tune: "It's nice to get together, drink a few beers, and have a good time combatting each other." In fact, the whole affair was as complex as, well, a war. All weekend, participants were indulging in the seductive impulse to establish their very...
...anticipation of that scientifically assisted blessed event, normally quiet Oldham (pop. 227,000) last week was in a state of siege. From as far off as Japan, scores of reporters and cameramen had converged on the town to be on hand for the birth of Baby Brown. Despite pleas from the doctors that the hullabaloo was endangering both mother and child, journalists steadfastly prowled the hospital's precincts. They were seeking any morsel of news. Perhaps a brief word with one of the doctors responsible for the Brown experiment: Patrick Steptoe, who came and went daily in his white Mercedes...