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...took me some time to realize I was standing on the main street, a place of vindictive traffic where vengeful folks sit inside their cars and hiss at pedestrians in great ire. Today there were smiling people on the road wishing each other well...
...most hostile incident, and the one that may well have roused Sadat's ire beyond control, occurred at a dinner given by Begin for his Egyptian and American guests. Both the Israelis and the Egytians had privately agreed in advance that they would leave polemics aside for this occasion. The U.S. delegation?but not the Egyptians?were warned in advance that Begin might deliver a tough toast, and he most certainly did. His ten-minute speech turned into a near tirade as he insisted that Israel would not go back to the "fragile, breakable, aggression-provoking and bloodshed-causing lines...
...agreed to the principle of withdrawal from the occupied territories. Ideally, the King would like to see the West Bank rejoined to his kingdom in the form of a federation of Palestinian and Jordanian states under his Hashemite crown. But since he does not want to arouse the ire of radical Arabs by seeming to covet the West Bank against the will of the Palestinians, Hussein proposes a plebiscite for the West Bank and Gaza under U.N. auspices...
Whatever the explanation, advertisers ire pondering, and pondering again. In the past three years, TV rates have jumped an astonishing 50%; a 30-sec. commercial on a hit show like Happy Days now costs about $120,000. If the networks can no longer deliver the promised audiences, or even if the audiences remain about the same, TV may no longer be the obligatory medium it now is for many advertisers. Already, some are turning from TV back to magazines and newspapers. In the past two years, General Foods, for instance, has more than doubled the money it spends on print...
News of the purchase renewed Italian ire at the loss of yet another art masterpiece to the U.S. Sergio Matteini Chiari, a magistrate in Gubbio, filed a charge of clandestine export of an artwork against "unknown persons." Until he can fill in the names, however, the action has little force. Higher Italian officials are considering more effective moves, including complaints to Washington...