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...times seemed incredulous at Begin's arguments. He implored Begin to be reasonable. Begin repeatedly talked as though the U.S. were proposing an independent Palestinian state. "Why do you keep saying that?" Carter asked. "Nobody is asking you to agree to a Palestinian state. Nobody wants that." Begin kept reciting his own technical explanation of why Resolution 242 did not apply to the West Bank. "I'm not worried about the words and how you interpret them," said Carter. "What disturbs me is my impression that what you're really saying-I shouldn...
...something for just about everyone, but almost no one will be entirely satisfied. The "partnership" offers-several innovative and much needed new programs. But for the most part, it is a repackaging of existing ones. Moreover, reflecting Carter's promise to balance the budget by 1980, he has kept a tight-some would say miserly-grip on the purse strings. He intends to add only an estimated $3.5 billion to the $85 billion to be spent to aid states and cities in fiscal...
That baroque pavement memorial in the residential Trionfale district on the northwest side of Rome is all that marks the site of the terrorist kidnaping that has traumatized the country. The only real sign of normality was the flower vendor at his usual corner. Having been kept away from the scene by the kidnapers, who slashed the tires of his truck beforehand, he was back selling flowers...
...great as those by large local banks. Most foreign banks dealing with the public still cluster in and around New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago, where they are allowed to do "retail" business. But for various reasons-desire to follow corporate clients, changes in state laws that once kept foreign banks out-the overseas offices have also appeared in such other cities as Houston, Atlanta, Miami and Boston...
...talent, indeed, was tripping him up in school, distracting him and keeping his grades marginal. He tried to charm and con his teachers with conversation, or, as he puts it now, "I tried to communicate with them on a more adult level." This ploy kept him hanging in, but mostly what he learned to do in high school was dance. At Dwight Morrow High, recalls his schoolmate Jerry Wurms, now working for Travolta's production company and still his closest friend, "we were both taught to dance by the blacks. Somebody in the corridors or outside always had a radio...