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...peace process initiated by Sadat ultimately bore fruit at Camp David the next year. Over a period of 13 days, Sadat, Begin and Jimmy Carter remained cloistered in that Maryland mountain retreat while they hammered out their historic "framework for peace." (Their joint efforts brought Sadat and Begin the Nobel Peace Prize for 1978.) The Camp David principles were embodied in a formal treaty that was signed by the three leaders in an emotional White House ceremony on March 26, 1979. For the first time in 31 years, Egypt and Israel were no longer in a state...
...carte items-90? hamburgers, $1.15 bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches, 65? side orders of French fries. About 240 students choose the so-called reimbursable lunch each day, paying $1.20 for a choice of sandwich or cheeseburger with potatoes and another vegetable or, if they prefer, fruit. Only ten students get that $1.20 lunch free...
Fans will still find enough vestiges of the former Reinhart: his sententious liberalism is undiminished; his antique Midwestern vocabulary ("hen fruit," "on the fritz") is intact; and if his optimism is a bit white at the temples, it still goads him on. But Reinhart ultimately comes to believe that life's meaning can be boiled down to the profound couplet: "Nothin' says lovin'/ Like something from the oven." The transformation has affected his creator as well. The tortuous and arcane language Berger displayed in Neighbors has been effectively streamlined. It now breaks for self-examination...
...local residents are being encouraged to take an interest in their gardens and a great many have, apart from their flower gardens, established vagetable beds and fruit trees. For these garden lovers the Horticultural Section provides trees, plants and advice. Garden competitions are organised each year...
...deadly rain water that never evaporates from the gutters. The word "poverty" loses its meaning because there is so much of it. The people somehow lead stable lives in these worst possible conditions, and the life of the city never idles. The chatter of hawkers, the stylistic craft of fruit vendors, the music of both the faithful and the impious, and the imprecations of beggars never cease...