Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe it is only right and fair that each guarantee Israel gets, we the Arabs should also get-except one thing. For if Israel chooses to conclude a common defense pact with the United States, I shall not call for a similar one. I shan't call for such a pact to be concluded between me and the United States, the Soviet Union, or any other power. We are a nonaligned country and will continue to be so. Our will is ours, and ours alone...
...usual, the Soviet leaders would let me say what I liked, occasionally voicing opposition which developed at times into sharp exchanges. Except for Brezhnev-he always appeared to be understanding and never opposed me. This time, however, they promised to send me the missile-equipped aircraft, together with experts to train Egyptian crews to use them. This time, too, they waived their original condition, namely, that to operate those aircraft in particular, prior permission had to be granted by Moscow. At the end of the meeting I said: "It's Oct. 12 today. I hope these weapons will...
...bureaucrat. He is noted in the Soviet Union for having served for thirteen years in government posts under Stalin without being liquidated by Beria-the Stalin Minister of the Interior-or sent to Siberia, as was the fate of all those who worked under Stalin. Not one of them except Kosygin was spared-as Khrushchev told us when he visited Egypt...
...Costa Rica's Attorney General's office, are still technically at war. Vesco is therefore an "enemy alien" and ineligible for citizenship. Vesco insists he is not worried. "There are many countries that have asked me, that have let me know they would receive me," he says. "Except for the United States, the country doesn't matter...
...road runner. Apodaca, 43, has spent the past six weeks chugging through the hills [ near the executive mansion, trying to get in shape for the Boston Marathon on April 17. "Monday through Friday I run eight miles a day and on the weekend I do ten miles a day-except when I'm getting tired," says the Governor, a veteran jogger and former running back at the University of New Mexico. Apodaca's longest previous race was a 13-miler in 1974. He is now trying to slim down from his current 172 lbs. because...