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...committee will probably review as many as 200 proposed research projects this year. Dean Gallant, executive secretary of the committee, said. This number represents an increase over the annual average of 125 proposals reviewed before the expansion of the committee's jurisdiction, he said...

Author: By Stephen R. Latham, | Title: Committee on Human Research Releases Experiment Guidelines | 11/3/1978 | See Source »

...Washington. They were waiting on the tarmac when the Egyptair Boeing 707 touched down, bringing Sadat from Paris, where he had dropped off his wife Jihan and his two-year-old grandson Sherif Marei, who was to receive medical treatment. At Andrews, Sadat praised Carter for the "brave and gallant act" of calling the summit. In a swipe at Begin, he warned: "No one has the right to block the road to peace. This is no time for maneuvers and worn-out ideas. It is time for magnanimity and reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Sealed-Lips Summit | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...most thrilling races in the history of the sport. They measured up to the demanding 1½-mile Belmont Stakes-"test of the champions" -and moved into the most select circle of racing royalty. Affirmed's honor was made grander still by the rousing challenge of his gallant rival, Alydar, who shadowed Harbor View Farm's chestnut in lockstep around the graceful, sweeping turns and down the long, open straightaways of New York's Belmont Park. At the wire, Affirmed won this race of matchless drama by a head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Claiming Their Triple Crown | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...colts are the first back-to-back Triple Crown winners in racing history, and, with Secretariat (1973), the second and third in six seasons. The remarkable conjunction marks a halcyon period for the three-year-olds' classics. Eleven years passed between the first winner, Sir Barton (1919). and Gallant Fox (1930); a full quarter-century separated the triumphs of Citation (1948) and Secretariat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Claiming Their Triple Crown | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...lesson we should learn from all this is that the French-Belgian intervention, which Newsweek called "a gallant rescue mission" for the Europeans in Kolwezi, was actually a rescue mission for the shaky, uniquely corrupt and autocratic regime of Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire. Even with the hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid that the U.S. has pumped into Mobutu's army, it broke and ran in the face of a few thousand Katangan rebels, and had to be bailed out by the French and Belgians. Mobutu's latest pronouncement on the subject was his call this week...

Author: By Neva SEIDMAN Makgetla, | Title: "Massacres" and a New Cold War in Zaire | 5/31/1978 | See Source »

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