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...billion (popular with Republicans), claiming it was large enough to threaten "vitally needed urban and social welfare programs." Noting an Urban League study that puts black unemployment at 13.2% (v. 6.3% for whites), Jordan called for increases in job-training funds and public service employment, proposals that most Republicans greet with a distinct chill. Before the Republican National Committee, Jesse Jackson called for a domestic Marshall Plan to revitalize the nation's cities. In spite of such obstacles, Brock insists that black voters can be won to traditional Republican economics. "What have Democratic proposals done for blacks?" he asks...
...outward appearances, Carter and Sadat got along chummily, exchanging jokes and embraces with enthusiasm. Their meeting took place in a rundown airport-terminal building, spruced up with new rugs and posh furniture. Also on hand to greet Carter was West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who was visiting Sadat. After a ten-minute meeting with Carter, Schmidt discreetly withdrew; less discreet were West German officials in Bonn who unreasonably complained about the failure of Carter to spend more time with the Chancellor...
From Tehran, Carter flew to India, where he was due to be welcomed by throngs of people at Delhi's Ram Lila Grounds, the same 19-acre field in which an estimated 1 million Indians waited for hours under a hot sun to greet Dwight Eisenhower in 1959. After spending the night at the red sandstone Rashtrapati Bhavan presidential palace. Carter on Monday was to begin a round of appearances that, says an aide, is designed to demonstrate U.S. support for a country that is trying to improve its lot "in the context of democratic institutions...
...dark legend to Palestinian Arabs for 30 years. An Israeli military band played first the Egyptian national anthem, By God of Old, Who Is My Weapon, and then the Israeli Hatikvah. In a hushed, deeply moving tableau, Sadat walked along the receiving line with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin to greet the old and resolute enemies: former Premiers Yitzhak Rabin and Golda Meir, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, Ariel Sharon, "Israel's Patton," who thrust Israeli armor deep into Egypt in the October...
...village: my grandmother rushes outside, dragging me along beside her, toward the canal where a ship loaded with treacle has just arrived from the nearby Kafr Zirqan. The road is not long, but every step fills me with joy and pride: men stand up as we pass to greet Grandmother. Though illiterate, she is a haven for everybody; she solves their problems and cures their sick with old Arab concoctions of medical herbs unrivaled in our village or in any of the neighboring ones. We buy a big jar of treacle and return home. Behind her I trot along?...