Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat-and the rest of the world-it was to be a week of high-stakes diplomacy. Despite the gemütlich surroundings, the Salzburg talks were considerably more than mere window dressing designed to give the impression of activity. Peace negotiations have been at an impasse for two months, ever since the collapse of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's shuttle between Israel and the Arab states. Said a White House security adviser: "The most dangerous thing is to do nothing. We can't afford that." Warned Egypt's Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy: "The Middle East...
Outright Fraud. Getting into the U.S.-and staying there-is relatively easy. Only 1,700 border agents police the nation's lengthy northern and southern perimeters, and the INS has a mere 900 investigators working in the nation's cities. Concedes Chapman: "Some 80% to 90% of the illegal aliens in this country are virtually beyond our reach." At least 300,000 persons arriving last year in the U.S. as tourists or students simply failed to leave. Tens of thousands more are spirited in by professional smugglers, who command as much as $1,500 for their services. Others...
...Market appeal seems like hardheaded analysis, however, compared with the unabashed Little England jingoism of the Why You Should Vote No brief: "The real aim of the Market is, of course, to become one single country in which Britain would be reduced to a mere province ... This may be acceptable to some Continental countries. In recent times, they have been ruled by dictators, or defeated or occupied. They are more used to abandoning their political institutions than...
...Hicks never saw but adopted from an engraving), or the Delaware Water Gap (which he may not have seen either). He certainly had never seen the grave of his idol William Penn, who was eventually buried at Jordans, in Buckinghamshire, 30 miles northwest of London. With typical disregard for mere historical fact, Hicks has substituted a hedge for the wall that surrounds the burying ground. But then, Hicks has no great interest in natural fact either. The "elm" under which Penn was supposed to have made his deal with the Indians conforms to no botanical index and varies from painting...
After Diem was executed in the 1963 coup, Minh became chief of state. He was ousted a mere three months later, having proved himself to be an ineffective administrator, and went into exile in Thailand. When he attempted to return in 1965, the tower at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport refused to grant his plane landing clearance; he had to return, humiliated to Bangkok. Three years later, Thieu-in what he described as part of a move toward national reconciliation-invited Minh back to Saigon. There Minh bided his time, tending the orchid garden at his spacious villa...