Word: happening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting with a delegation of key Congressmen, at which he pushed his case for the package sale of airplanes to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel. Congress can block the plane sales if both chambers agree to do so, but the White House claims confidence that this will not happen. No vote is expected until the Panama Canal issue is resolved next month...
...first time since Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's peace initiative began four months ago, nobody-in Cairo, Jerusalem, Washington or anywhere else-had the slightest idea what was going to happen next...
...this sounds schmaltzy, but it actually works in the film. The trouble is, these scenes exist in a vacuum supported by almost no discernable plot progression. Things seem to happen in this movie without any cause or subsequent effect...
...apathy, this would work to the convention's advantage--students would indeed laugh at the very notion of students having a say about much of anything that goes on at Harvard, but they wouldn't feel strongly enough to actually vote against the constitution. Ironically, just the opposite might happen. Students might care enough to point out the constitution's weaknesses and refuse to ratify it, without caring enough to profer a viable alternative. It looked like just such an irony might become reality, when the South House delegation to the convention presented the results of a poll...
...Pentagon will strike at you," he reiterated. "The Pentagon will strike you for one reason: Soviet weapons have once before defeated U.S. weapons and, in accordance with our global strategy, we can't allow it to happen again." And Kissinger went on to say: "Do you know, when you created an international crisis, when you asked the two superpowers to come in and get the forces back to the cease-fire lines of Oct. 22, otherwise, you threatened, you'd do it yourself provided the Pentagon didn't stand against you-do you know what sort...