Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, Israeli officialdom was astonished and delighted to hear Carter's words and seized on them as justification for Begin's position. "Even Carter behaved himself this week," quipped a Begin aide in Jerusalem. In Cairo, President Anwar Sadat was also astonished, but far from delighted. He was obviously shaken over what appeared to him to be a thoughtless disruption of all his careful and so far eminently successful strategy. Carter, said Sadat ruefully, "is making my job very difficult. This embarrasses me. What surprises me most is ignoring the importance of the Palestinian issue, the core...
Walk down Columbia Street at night and the chances are good you will hear music with a Latin beat escaping from the windows. Winter has driven the guitar-strumming, beer-drinking knots of friends off the stoops, it's true. The windows are shut tight against a cold which seems even harsher compared to the tropical warmth of Havana and San Juan. But though forced inside by an inhospitable climate, the music will not be imprisoned. The salsa sound of Puerto Rico, or perhaps a Mexican ballad, filters faintly out to the street, signalling to the passerby that he walks...
...aloud by the U.S. Ambassador. Because there are so few able men around him, many of Sadat's own directives seem to melt away when they reach Egypt's swollen bureaucracy. The President keeps the important decisions secret; his ministers, and even his wife, usually hear about them the same time the public does. When Sadat finally does arrive at a decision, it is usually irreversible. "He has a will of iron," says one military officer...
...sense without Heldensoprano Birgit Nilsson, who has been away from the U.S. for several seasons and gives no sign of returning. Last week the Met considerably shored up its Wagnerian wing with a new production of Tannhäuser that was spectacular to behold, breathtaking (with one major exception) to hear and immensely satisfying in the way it made dramatic sense of the churchiness that infuses the work. The performance also emphatically implied that Music Director James Levine, 34, is fast becoming a skilled Wagnerian conductor...
...Israeli and Egyptian ambassadors to the U.S. When Jordan settled down to dinner, according to Quinn, he turned to Amal Ghorbal, the Egyptian ambassador's wife, "gazed at [her] ample front, pulled at her elastic bodice and was prompted to say, loudly enough for several others to hear, 'I've always wanted to see the Pyramids.' " Did it really happen? Better ask the Sphinx, because nobody else is talking. Does it really matter? Hamilton's boss doesn't seem to think so. When Quinn's story appeared, Jimmy Carter's only complaint...