Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never seem to come easy for Jimmy Carter -when they come at all. So there was reason for quiet euphoria mixed with continuing wariness at the White House last week when the Administration moved a major step forward in its uphill battle to sell $4.8 billion worth of U.S. jet fighters to Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. In an 8-to-8 tie vote, following days of intensive and bipartisan lobbying, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee declined to reject the three-part arms deal. White House Press Secretary Jody Powell declared Carter to be "extremely gratified" with the result...
...American arms sales are always linked with guarantees that they will not be transferred to other parties, and the kingdom of Saudi Arabia honors those guarantees. Furthermore, transfer of sophisticated weapons from one party to another is not an easy matter. A highly advanced jet like the F-15 is not like an automobile that any driver can handle. These planes require a long period of training for pilots and many other complicated preparations, which make them difficult to transfer from one army to another...
...Charles Philip Arthur George Mount-batten-Windsor did not exist, who could invent him? Consider. He can pilot a jet fighter and knows enough about helicopters to help repair them. He has skippered a Royal Navy minesweeper through North Atlantic gales with the skill of a yachtsman handling a racing sloop. He plays an aggressive, three-plus-handicap game of polo and is a qualified paratrooper. He is a gifted amateur cellist who can be moved to tears while listening to the music of Berlioz. He has scuba-dived in the Caribbean, schussed down Alps, sambaed into the night with...
...rest of the passengers who had boarded Pan Am's Flight 688 in Frankfurt, West Germany, one morning ast week, there seemed nothing remarkable about the bearded man and his three neatly dressed companions. But as soon as the jet landed at West Berlin's Tegel Airport, the foursome rushed into...
...Soviet ballet seeking the variety and freedom of dance in the West. Several choreographers of stature created works for him, but the results were disappointing. Mostly Baryshnikov has been performing the romantic parts, like Albrecht in Giselle, that he grew up with. Along the way he tried out the jet set life at Studio 54, picked up an Oscar nomination for The Turning Point and bought a few toys like a white Cadillac, but all that meant little to a man who is a serious and rather solitary artist...