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...desk in Jerusalem, he was working no more than his normal rigorous schedule. All this seemed a strange way for the leaders of the U.S., Egypt and Israel to prepare for the momentous summit conference that convenes this week at Camp David, the secluded presidential retreat in the Maryland hills. Observed one astonished diplomat involved in planning the meeting: "I expected frantic activity these weeks. But so far nothing's happening...
...amendment is the latest in a series of efforts to win political independence for the District that was carved out of Maryland and Virginia in 1791. Only in 1961 did Washingtonians finally get the right to vote in presidential elections. In 1971 they were able to elect a nonvoting delegate to the House of Representatives, Walter Fauntroy. In 1974 they achieved a degree of home rule with an elected mayor, Walter Washington, and a city council...
...Louis Rukeyser, then economic correspondent for ABC, it was just another bit of moonlighting. The job: hosting an experimental program produced by the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting. The time: 1970. The result: Wall Street Week, the wise, witty half-hour review of business and finance that has defied all laws of gravity that usually apply to the tube and become one of public TV's top shows, drawing 5 million viewers every Friday evening. WSW has done more than make its natty 6-ft. 2-in. star the most popular figure on PBS since Sesame Street's Big Bird...
...lesser scale, three kinds of insects are attacking sweet corn in Maryland and Pennsylvania: the fall army worm, the corn-ear worm and the European corn borer. Ironically, the corn has been so lush this year that sprays used to combat the worms do not fully penetrate the thick foliage. Pest controllers estimate that Maryland farmers could lose up to 75% of their corn crops...
...days later, an extraordinary effort to revive the peace talks had begun. Like Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had accepted Jimmy Carter's invitation to attend a trilateral summit meeting on Sept. 5 at Camp David, Carter's retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland...