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...what President Sadat's condition was or who had attacked him. White House sources at first characterized Sadat's injuries as "not life threatening." As late as 9:57 a.m. E.D.T., former U.S. President Jimmy Carter assured CBS's Rather over a telephone hookup from Plains, Ga., that his diplomatic sources in Cairo had just told him "President Sadat will be all right...
...collection, is installing a $1.7 million computerized circulation-control system, which will ensure that anyone with an overdue book will not be permitted to borrow further. An electronic device at the University of Pennsylvania has reduced losses by 39% and paid for itself in 38 months. In DeKalb County, Ga., a protection system has cut losses at one high school library from 346 volumes to 22 in two years...
There was yet another inning of sand-lot summetry, Plains, Ga.-style last week, when Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 68, dropped in on former President Jimmy Carter, 56, and his wife Rosalynn, 54. There to greet his arrival was a crowd of some 1,500, many of them children in yarmulkes, shouting "Shalom!" Begin and Carter seemed outwardly cordial, despite past frustrations over their differences. Said Joel Arnon, Israeli consul general in Atlanta: "They are two strong personalities who both believe they have a direct line...
...very southern college town" and will concern "a crime taking place [that forces] people to make decisions and moral judgements." That may sound like a strange combination, but there's method to Oney's seeming madness. Journalistically speaking, he came of age in his college town, Athens, Ga., where he edited the student magazine and wrote for the daily newspaper, the "Red and Black." And his most recent experiences in journalism have concerned the most sensational mass murder spree since Lizzie Borden took up her axe, the Atlanta child murders. In covering that story, Oney had to make the moral...
...certainly wasn't his only poignant piece about life in the Deep South. A reporter who prefers delving into issues of local concern to covering national media events, Oney won a prize for the best Sunday magazine story of the year with a lengthy impressionistic piece on Leary, Ga. Leary is a remote town some 60 miles south of Plains, where Oney lived for several weeks to research his piece. The quiet and reflective mien he assumes when discussing what he observed in Leary leave no doubt that the experience profoundly affected him. A lifelong Southerner, Oney realized that places...