Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appeared solemn and strained before their hour-long talk. But when the two later greeted newsmen, a more relaxed Sadat referred to Strauss as "Ambassador Bob." Sadat said that following his meeting this week with Begin in Alexandria, he would immediately consult with Carter and Strauss on how "to keep the momentum going in the peace process." He warned that unless there was tangible progress in the autonomy talks before October, the sixth anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, the peace process could begin to unravel...
...Shah. At this point, for the first time since the days of Mossadegh, university students in Tehran came to the support of the clergy against the Shah. Khomeini wrote to then Premier Asadollah Alam: "My heart is ready for the bayonet of your troops. I shall never keep quiet " By the spring of 1963, Khomeini was preaching to crowds of 100,000 in Qum, telling them that only "a flick of the finger" was necessary to sweep the Shah away...
...increasingly out of touch with his own revolution, bewildered by the pace of events. But he will never surrender power easily. On his return to Qum, he told a nationwide radio and television audience: "The remaining one or two years of my life I will devote to you to keep this movement alive." He will surely try to do so for throughout his life he has rigidly held to his commitments. The real question is whether Iran has not become too secular over the past 50 years to submit for long to the rule of a philosopher-king...
...Lloyd's of London, risk has always meant opportunity. The celebrated market of hundreds of risk-sharing insurance syndicates prides itself on being the first to offer coverage on the new, the colossal, the bizarre. But as technology grows ever more complex, the risks keep rising, and each year the amounts that Lloyd's underwriters pay out on litigious losses, from oil tanker disasters to Mafia-set arson jobs, keep swelling. Yet this year is one that even Lloyd's risk-hardened underwriters are not likely to forget...
...allowed the press to publish the Pentagon papers in 1971, despite claims by the Government of national security; unanimously (7-0) struck down a Virginia statute last year that penalized newspapers for revealing secret disciplinary proceedings against a judge; and forbade courts in 1976 to "gag" the press to keep it from printing information it had obtained at open pretrial hearings...