Word: journey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nazi destruction of Europe's Jews, Wouk employs the deepening distress of Natalie Jastrow Henry, Submariner Byron's Jewish wife. With her baby and her uncle Aaron Jastrow, a famous American Jewish author, Natalie is caught in Italy when the U.S. declares war. The trio's journey, a war-long struggle to escape, is dramatically paired with the agonies of Cousin Berel, a Polish Jew, in the concentration camps. The intertwining tales allow Wouk, a devout Jew, to measure the Nazi persecution...
While Egypt's President Anwar Sadat broke his homeward journey in Morocco to see one of his closest Arab allies, King Hassan II, and Jimmy Carter conferred with Sudanese President Gaafar Mohamed Nimeiri, four hard-line Arab states and an assortment of Palestinian liberation groups assembled in Damascus for the third so-called Steadfast Summit. The theme: Fight Sadat?and topple him if possible...
...Camp David, for neither the U.S. nor Egypt can afford to ignore their views. Their bulging treasury supports Egypt's crippled economy, and their petroleum and financial reserves have served U.S. interests by tempering oil price hikes and helping support the weakening international position of the dollar. Sadat's journey to Jerusalem was publicly praised by the Saudis, though they had reservations about his chances for success. Because they are worried about the mounting influence of radicals in the Middle East, however, the conservative Saudis reluctantly endorsed Sadat's participation at Camp David in the hope that any peace progress...
...happiness than most people, far more opportunity to enlarge his choices and control his existence. This made his obligation to help all who had been wronged the more acute and poignant. Robert Kennedy at last traveled in that speculative area where doubt lived. He returned from the dangerous journey, his faith intact, but deepened, enriched. From Aeschylus and Camus he drew a sort of Christian stoicism and fatalism: a conviction that man could not escape his destiny, but that this did not relieve him of the responsibility of fulfilling his own best self . . . Life was a sequence of risks...
...Looking fit in an elegantly tailored tunic, Hua, 57, obviously enjoyed every minute of the affair. As well he might. Aside from a brief visit to North Korea last spring, this was his first trip to a foreign country and -for a Chinese party chairman-the first-ever foreign journey farther afield than Moscow; Mao Tse-tung last visited the Kremlin in 1957 when relations with the Soviets were still civil...