Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dark out in the Maryland suburbs. Air crisp, sliver of a moon still high. Roar of the Potomac River's great falls from over the hill. George Washington used to tarry there. Headed down the valley to breakfast with Jimmy Carter, 189 years after George, but land still beautiful in first light Mist rising over water. Sun burnishing the East. Past Teddy Roosevelt's hiking island, Lyndon Johnson's memorial pine thicket, John Kennedy's flame. Glorious city ahead in sparkling dawn. Everything looks, feels better with President acting like...
...SALT III treaty that would make additional cuts in strategic nuclear arsenals. At the last Vance-Gromyko meeting in Geneva, in July, both sides pressed for some exemptions in the restrictions on new weapons and it appears they tentatively agreed that each could test at least one new land-launched missile. Since then the two nations have been warily circling each other, seeking tradeoffs. Says one U.S. participant in the talks: "It's like a Chinese menu. You take three from Column A, or two from Column...
Fourteen months ago, Walker was given his fourth star and his toughest assignment: commander of NATO's land-based forces in southeastern Europe, with headquarters at Izmir, Turkey. This command used to have 600,000 troops, but the Greeks pulled out their 150,000-man contingent after Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974. Walker thus found himself in the unenviable role of being an American general leading a Turkish army on Turkish soil at a time when the U.S. Congress was punishing Turkey with an arms embargo...
...Jerusalem, the Knesset's agony over whether or not to accept the accords was shared by the country at large. Most Israelis believe that they must retain a presence in the occupied territories as security against future Arab attacks. Religious Jews, moreover, consider much of this land as their God-ordained birthright. Begin shares the religious Zionist view that occupied territories where Jews lived in biblical times are rightfully part of Eretz Yisrael. In fact, he almost torpedoed the Camp David talks on that issue...
...result, will be to proceed unilaterally with peace talks, which are likely to end up in the U.S. as a neutral site. Sadat could then present fellow Arabs with a fait accompli. An Egyptian diplomat told Wynn last week: "Once the Israelis begin withdrawing and handing over land to us, we simply will ask the other Arabs a question: 'Do you want us to give Sinai back to the Israelis...