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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...different issue each show, Fisher led the late President Gamel Abdul Nasser of Egypt to admit in 1970 his willingness to accept in principle the existence of Israel. This admission sent U.S. diplomats scurrying to Cairo, and helped produce the first Sinai disengagement agreement--at least if a letter from then-Secretary of State William P. Rogers, thanking Fisher for his efforts, can be believed...
...that the Shiloh settlement was authorized strictly as an archaeological exploration site, though the settlers themselves admitted frankly that they were in Shiloh to stay. The U.S. had hoped to avoid an open quarrel with Jerusalem on the eve of Sadat's visit, but Carter did send a stiff letter about Shiloh to Begin, who was said to be shocked and angered by its language. Privately, Administration officials are furious, feeling they have not been fairly treated by the Premier and his colleagues. They understood Dayan to have told them last September that there would be no new civilian settlements...
...damage the kidneys if ingested, but the metallic mercury of the kind used in thermometers ?potentially dangerous to very young children but not to adults. Nonetheless, the tampered oranges were a shock to Europe, especially after it became known that they were fruits of political terrorism. In a letter to the West German government, an extremist group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Army-Palestine Command claimed it had doctored the fruit to disrupt Israel's economy...
...bishops-to-be, C. Dale Doren of Pittsburgh, arrived in Taejon and spent a fruitless week trying to get Pae to take part. "I went through a lot of agonizing soul searching, but I just could not betray my church," Pae says. In Denver, Doren released a letter from Pae giving his "consent" to Doren's consecration and expressing his opinion that the new church should be in communion with Canterbury. But last week Pae denied writing such a document...
...about as profitable as wondering what Hamlet studied at Wittenberg. But given its woolgathering premise, Heathcliff is a remarkably accomplished and engrossing novel. It is also a first-rate act of literary impersonation. Caine introduces convincing versions of Lockwood and Nelly Dean and, at some risk, a long autobiographical letter written by Heathcliff himself. Bereft because he knows Catherine will never marry him, the ferocious young man flees the Heights with a vague plan to wreak vengeance on the world. No sooner does he reach London than he joins a mob wrecking a house in Bloomsbury Square. The work invigorates...