Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some human beings are gifted with perfect pitch, others with total recall. Ben Skora can hand-build just about anything, without benefit of blueprint. A high school dropout, one-time recording company owner, Skora has for the past 30 years helped pay the rent by treating drug, drinking and other...
The "spirit of Jerusalem" has disappeared; the Peace Initiative launched by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat when he made his historic trip to Jerusalem last November has all but failed. The tragedy is that it very nearly succeeded.
The latest furor was touched off by the Israeli Cabinet's decision to reject Sadat's proposal, informally made to Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman in Austria, that the Begin government respond to his Jerusalem peace initiative with a small gesture of good faith. Sadat had suggested that Israel return...
All along the historic road from Beirut to Damascus, Syrian soldiers can be found, manning big guns and tanks by day, huddling beside tents and fires by night. "Lebanon is a thankless, difficult, lonely task," says one high-ranking Damascus official. No one knows that better than Assad's 30...
Not all experts agree. "I believe the slow growth theory is very dangerous," says Manfred Wegener, the chief European Community forecaster. "It could too easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy." Assistant Secretary of the Treasury C. Fred Bergsten is optimistic. Says he: "I'm not sure you can'...