Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meters away. Duden and the advance fire team climb to the top of a small hill while the rest of the platoon, headed by Lieut. Steve Darnell, pushes through the wooded terrain. All the soldiers creep silently through the underbrush. "It's pretty quiet," whispers Duden. "I just hope Darnell hasn't gotten us lost again...
...week's end, with the negotiations in recess while the Egyptians and Israelis began to study a document that could end 30 years of war, Washington was hoping against hope that a political miracle had been achieved. Many problems remained, but the first step toward Middle East peace was being taken...
...itself. Backing away from earlier threats that they would not oppose economic sanctions, the Big Five envoys now agreed that they would veto any such proposal put to the U.N. Security Council until Pretoria's internal settlement is proved beyond doubt to be a sham. The Western powers hope eventually to persuade South Africa to accept a U.N.-supervised vote that the Third World countries could also consider legitimate. But, as one Western diplomat ruefully admitted as he left Pretoria last week: "The talks have left us with one hell of a selling...
...amounts will cause environmental problems. Oil is not the answer either; the U.S.S.R. is so desperate for hard currency that it sells much of its oil abroad. It is also running low and has resorted to costly tertiary recovery methods in some of its fields. Solar energy, which Americans hope eventually will ease their energy problems, is not taken seriously by Soviet scientists, who, for the most part, seem not only highly competent but almost aggressively realistic. Explains Academician Alexander Sheindlin, director of the Soviet Union's High Temperature Institute: "The U.S.S.R. is a northern country. We cannot rely...
...Harvard singles players lost but one set in an early blitzkrieg that left Wellesley reeling, trailing 6-0, and without a hope of catching up. Freshman star Betsy Richmond at number one, the New England Women's Intercollegiate singles champion, captured all but three games in rushing to an easy straight set victory over Katherine Griner...