Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli delegation will be headed by Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, while the Egyptian delegation will be led by Lieut. General Kamal Hassan Ali, Sadat's newly appointed Defense Minister. Meeting at Blair House, across the street from the White House, the participants will divide into working groups to hammer out military and diplomatic procedures...
...police of Italy's special antiterrorist squad. Visitors to the apartment were photographed as they entered the building and tailed as they left. Finally, the authorities were ready to strike. In a coordinated two-day sweep directed by Carlo Alberto Delia Chiesa, 58, a much-decorated carabinieri general, police arrested nine key members of the terrorist Red Brigades organization, broke into four of their hideouts and confiscated numerous arms and a wealth of material on terrorist activities...
...seeking to return. At a temporary shelter on the outskirts of Lisbon, set up to house would-be returnees, Dulce Pereira da Silva, 54, last week was waiting for a flight to take her back to the village of Musulo in northeast Angola, where she once owned a general store. Says she: "My son, who is a mechanic, is already working and I've had letters and phone calls from the family and they say everything is all right there." Angelino José de Castro, 23, formerly a rural schoolteacher in Angola, and his wife Virginia are equally optimistic...
...Bulgaria's security service. Both Markov and Kostov had been well-known intellectuals in Bulgaria, with friends in the Politburo. Before defecting in 1969, Markov had won national acclaim as a writer and TV commentator. One of his later plays, The Assassins, dealt with a plot to kill a general in a police state. His defection, and his subsequent BBC and Radio Free Europe broadcasts, had been an embarrassment to the Sofia government and triggered a shake-up in its propaganda establishment. The 1977 defection of Kostov, formerly a political commentator and correspondent for the state radio and television, meant...
...begin with, the project was launched at the worst possible moment: the start of the 1973-74 recession, when demand for new housing shriveled. Says Michael Spear, former general manager of Columbia, Md., a successful new community that is privately financed: "Launching a new towns program in the early 1970s was like asking the Wright brothers to test their airplane in a hurricane and then concluding, when it crashed, that the invention did not work...