Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summit's first weekend, the participants took a respite from diplomacy when Carter, at military-buff Begin's request, organized a 3½-hour excursion to Gettysburg's Civil War battlefield, some 17 miles north of Camp David. As the group viewed monuments and century-old cannons, Carter attempted to lighten the mood by joking that the gun had a range of three miles, vs. 300 to 400 yds. for the cluster bombs that the U.S. sold to Israel after the 1973 war. Sadat and Begin somehow managed a laugh. But reporters accompanying the entourage noticed a marked lack of warmth...
...hadn't left western Massachusetts since the early '60s. She invited me to sit down next to her. I obliged, and as the bus pulled out she revealed to me a secret stash of Cokes, cheese twists, bananas and Twinkies she had brought to eat during the 24-hour ride to Tennessee. Then she began to show me pictures of her boyfriends from home. Jesus. I squirmed and looked toward the back of the bus. Twenty middle-aged women's faces, pointing towards Tennessee, looked back at me. I slouched down in the chair and tried to remember jokes...
Correspondents in southern Nicaragua reported occasional firing near the outpost of Penas Blancas on the Costa Rican border. Guerrillas fought a nine-hour battle with the national guard garrison there Sunday before withdrawing into Costa Rica...
Another idea is to delay for a year increases in the federal minimum wage-from $2.65 an hour to $2.90-and in Social Security taxes scheduled for January. Miller last week urged Congress to do just that, and he has allies in the Administration who calculate that the delays would knock a full percentage point off next year's inflation rate. But the delays would so anger-labor and old people that the Administration is not expected to ask for them. Most likely it will merely pass the word that it is not opposed to delays and hope that...
...each party competes to broadcast its version of the proceedings. Until then, the prisoners of Thurmont will have to function largely without leaks, a handicap that often results in minor disaster and desperate attempts at onescoopmanship. The A.P. reported, erroneously, that Carter and Begin had talked for 3½ hours Tuesday night and would eat lunch with Sadat on Wednesday (in fact, the Tuesday meeting lasted only two hours and Wednesday's luncheon did not take place). A.P. recovered by getting hold of a pool photo of Sadat and Begin an hour before rival United Press International...