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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committed not to deal with the P.L.O. until the P.L.O. recognizes Israel's right to exist. That U.S. commitment was made in secret by Kissinger in September 1975 as part of the agreement that produced the second Sinai disengagement...
Italian guesstimates are that nearly 5 million "unemployed, retired and sick" people-a fifth of the nation's total labor force-work full or part time at jobs that do not officially exist. Another 3 million are believed to moonlight regularly at unreported second and even third jobs. Entire families work at home assembling ball-point pens, making shoes, stamping out auto parts or upholstering furniture. Hospital nurses work after hours in clinics; cops and firemen do lucrative plumbing or electrical work in their spare time. Many wages are substandard: as low as $60 a month. But there...
Wagner, it seems, disliked smoking cigarettes and threatened to sue the manufacturer of Sweet Caporal cigarettes, when it used his picture on one of their premium cards. Since only a few were printed before the company suspended production of his card, the estimated two dozen that are known to exist have become coveted investments. If they are in good condition they may sell for $4,000 apiece...
Most collectors sell and swap in order to complete "sets"-series of cards distributed by one company in a single year. Over 2,000 such sets exist today, including some dating back to the 1880s when Old Judge Tobacco first printed crude photographs of players on cards, which were used as stiffeners in cigarette packages. Since then baseball cards have come with everything from Pepsi-Cola cartons to Burger Chef disposable trays. And, of course, bubble gum. Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., which prints 250 million cards a year and pays players $250 plus royalties to pose, makes the largest...
...later characterized in American diplomatic phrases as "very useful" and "constructive," Vance put forward some of the proposals" he had brought with him from Washington. Among them: that the Palestine Liberation Organization be allowed to participate in a Geneva Peace Conference only after it recognizes Israel s right to exist; that the boundaries of Isarel be a matter for negotiation; that "real peace" include not only an end to the state of belligerency but also full diplomatic and economic ties between Israel and the Arab states...