Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter handled the Marston queries poorly. At first he said he had known nothing about Marston until he heard that Attorney General Griffin Bell was going to replace him. Then, under sharp probing from reporters, Carter conceded that he had telephoned Bell and asked him to "expedite" Marston's ouster after Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman Joshua Eilberg requested him to "look into" the Philadelphia situation. It was an uncomfortable admission to say the least: although Carter denied being aware of it, Eilberg has been implicated in a Marston investigation into financial irregularities in the construction of a Philadelphia hospital. While...
...certain collapse. Andreotti was expected to submit his resignation to President Giovanni Leone early this week, thus setting the stage for the moment that democratic governments around the world have long dreaded. For the first time since 1947, the powerful Communist Party of Italy, led by Secretary-General Enrico Berlinguer, stood poised to assume a decisive role in the government...
With the police so busy, an increase in general crime was inevitable. In 1977 reported crimes in Italy rose by 7.5% over the previous year-from 1,900,000 to 2,090,000. An average of eight out often of these crimes, or 13% more than in 1976, remained unsolved. Kidnaping, more often for profit than political motives-but occasionally for both -reached a record total of 76 in 1977. Since 1970, kidnapers have netted $175.5 million in ransom money...
...such issue: Israeli settlements in the Sinai, which was the focus of discussion between Israel's Ezer Weizman and Egypt's General Mohammed Abdel Gha-ny Gamassy who met in the Tahra Palace on the outskirts of Cairo. Privately, both sides insisted that the Sinai settlements were not a fundamental problem. In fact, one leading Egyptian official told TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn: "We suspect the Israelis are making so much of the Sinai settlements in order to establish the principle of settlements in the occupied territories-and later to apply that principle to the West Bank...
...question last week was whether Israel has launched a new settlement program in the northern Sinai. For two weeks there were repeated news leaks to that effect, followed by official denials. Eventually, most observers concluded that the leaks were part of a bid by hawkish Agriculture Minister (and former general) Ariel Sharon to try to force the government to approve the concept of new settlements. On his own initiative, Sharon dispatched eight bulldozers to start work on ground clearing in the northern Sinai. The affair did not amuse Premier Menachem Begin, who told colleagues: "Sharon is disloyal. His days...