Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight Kfir fighters screaming in over Beirut. The low-flying jets broke the sound barrier, shattering windows and creating panic. The overflight was clearly intended as a warning to the Syrians by the Israelis, who also strengthened their positions along the Golan Heights and their border with Lebanon. Declared Major General Shlomo Gazit, chief of Israeli military intelligence: "Israel will not watch peacefully the Christian massacre in Beirut." In response, the Syrian air force went on alert, and Damascus rushed armored units of its own to the Golan Heights, where its usual three divisions had been pared to one because...
...Ambassador to Lebanon Richard Parker interceded with Damascus, asking the Syrians to accept Sarkis' demands that: 1) all major factions submit to his authority, and 2) the Syrians ease their pressure and give him time to maneuver...
...joint commitment was the major achievement of Vice President Walter Mondale's four-day tour of the Middle East. As Mondale left Alexandria for Washington last week, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat handed him a new six-point peace plan to pass on to Israel. The plan is Egypt's response to a 26-point proposal presented by Israeli Premier Menachem Begin at the Ismailia conference last December. Washington sources optimistically contended that the two plans, although predictably far apart on every major issue, would serve as "a fair basis for negotiations...
Leaders of the seven major industrial powers* will meet in Bonn next week for their fourth economic summit since 1975. Superficially, the atmosphere will be like a board meeting of a multinational corporation. In reality, the spirit of the two-day session will be more like a three-sided tag-team wrestling match...
...making sure that they are not impossible." With Glimpses, his first detective story in a quarter-century, Crispin re-establishes his own flair for turning the unlikely into the inevitable. A grisly succession of murders, decapitations and other severances in a Devon village involves the rector, a retired major, a composer, a not-too-plodding constable, two detectives, two nymphomaniacs, sundry pig farmers, most of Fleet Street, a blackmailer, a local ancient -and Gervase Fen, an urbane Oxford don and literary critic who, as in previous Crispin novels, discreetly provides the ratiocination that puts all the bods and motives together...