Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to Vance, they included Brzezinski, Defense Secretary Harold Brown and U.S. Envoy Roy Atherton. White House officials had been careful not to encourage hopes of success. On the flight to Cairo, a senior presidential aide stressed that Carter was "not particularly" optimistic and was "well aware of the fact that it is much easier for things to go wrong than to go right." This caution seemed warranted, for even before the Americans had landed, Egyptian Premier Moustafa Khalil had announced that his Cabinet had not accepted all the U.S. compromise proposals. Said Khalil: "There will be a few changes...
When the news reached Riyadh that President Carter would soon arrive in the Middle East to nail down a peace treaty, there were no outbursts of relief or thanksgiving. In fact, there was much more excitement over the Arab Foreign Ministers' meeting in Kuwait, which had just arranged a second cease-fire in the border war between Marxist, Moscow-leaning South Yemen and moderate, pro-Saudi North Yemen. For the Saudis, the importance of the cease-fire was that it had been negotiated and resolved by the Arabs. The President's visit to Cairo and Jerusalem was only...
...first a general assumption that he had received assurances from Israel and Egypt that his trip would be successful Said New York Republican Senator Jacob Javits: "If he's taking more risk than I think he's taking, he's crazy." But Carter in fact had received no such guarantee, and the American people soon realized that he had embarked on the most politically hazardous trip of his presidential career. Riding with him on Air Force One could have been his own political future. Said the Herald: "His willingness to bet the farm in 1979 could well...
Instead, the trial will center on a fact not in dispute: that Silkwood had been exposed to enough plutonium to make her fear that she might be dying. The courtroom clash will come over just how that contamination occurred and whether it meant that the plant was negligent in handling the potent metal, which is used in atomic weapons. Plutonium is considered some 20,000 times more deadly than the venom from a cobra if ingested, and even minute quantities can cause cancer years later. As testimony opened in a federal court in Oklahoma City last week, Dr. John Gofman...
Usually only women are strip-searched in Chicago; men are generally given a pat-down while clothed. Says A.C.L.U. Attorney Lois Lipton: "This practice cut across racial lines, ethnic lines, age lines, religious lines. The only thing these women had in common was that they were women." In fact, one female plaintiff was at the police station accompanying a male friend who had been arrested. Although she was never charged with a crime, she was stripped and searched...