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...debate over the plane sales continued, the week's peace negotiations−highlighted by Dayan's trip to Washington, to be followed by Begin's visit this week−resumed but made little headway. After nearly six hours of talks with Vance and 90 minutes with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Dayan left the Administration with scant hope of a break in the diplomatic stalemate. At issue in the talks were the interpretation of an old document, U.N. Resolution 242, and the formulation of a new one, a declaration of principles to govern a comprehensive Middle East...
Three years of control efforts, including massive poisoning, made no headway against the frogs. The only chance left, says James St. Amant, supervisor of the state department of fish and game, is to find "a critter that'll feed on them." That may be difficult since the frog's skin apparently contains a toxic venom and tastes awful. Even an alligator passed up a dish of clawed frogs-legs...
...politics, while women have never been well represented, they are making some headway at the state and local levels. The number of female state legislators has virtually doubled since 1971, to 685. There are 90 women mayors of American cities that have populations of more than 10,000. Nearly half-six of 13 members-of the Minneapolis city council is now female. In tiny Flemington, Ga., every municipal office is held by a woman. Says Betty Friedan: "Women have gained enormously over the last 15 years. We have broken through the barriers, and it is more than just tokenism...
Since the mid-'60s, Kangai said, the oppressed black majority in Zimbabwe has believed it can only "meet the reactionary violence of the colonialist regime with revolutionary violence," because efforts to deal with the white government diplomatically made no headway...
...went to Kansas City, I'm not only pleased but amazed at the kind of progress we've made. I think it's a real horse race. We have the momentum going. I'm confident that we're going to continue to make headway, and I think we've got time...