Word: flew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curators went the spoils. The blue-and-white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might. Over a weekend and a day, American women had reached some kind of watershed in their own history, and in that of the nation...
...which most procedural and some substantive issues had been agreed upon in advance to preclude the possibility of failure. The alternative was "Geneva Down": an unfocused, probably contentious conference at which even basic procedures would be subject to intense wrangling. At week's end Foreign Minister Dayan flew to West Germany for a scheduled round of talks with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government. Across the Middle East, rumors rebounded that he might meet there with Egyptian diplomats-or, possibly, even go later to neutral Rumania for a conference with his Cairo counterpart, acting Foreign Minister Butros Ghali...
...pimp along Minneapolis' Hennepin Avenue and moved in with him. He persuaded her to hit the streets. "He wouldn't let me come into the house unless I brought him $150 a day," she recalled. After she was arrested for prostitution, she and her pimp flew to New York, where she worked for 16 months. She collected at least $100,000, of which she saved only $800. She was arrested 42 times for prostitution and once for grand larceny ("It was a trick who wanted his money back") but never served a day in jail. When she tried...
...state that radical Arabs refuse to accept; 3) in speaking to the Knesset, he was also acknowledging Israel's right to consider Jerusalem as its capital (even the U.S. maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv). Attempting to blunt such criticism in advance of his trip, Sadat last week flew to Damascus to confer with Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has been somewhat suspicious of his Arab brother since the second Sinai accord of 1975, through which Egypt regained the Abu Rudeis oilfields...
TIME's Cairo bureau chief, Wilton Wynn, was the only American magazine journalist aboard the plane that flew Sadat from Abu Suweir Airport near Ismailia to Tel Aviv. A special guest of the Egyptian President, Wynn cabled from Jerusalem this account of the historic flight...