Word: mets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabinet-level Special Coordination Committee, which sets tactics for the arms talks, met to give Secretary of State Cyrus Vance instructions for what might have turned out to be his final SALT II bargaining round with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. But after conferring Wednesday, bringing to eight their meetings in April alone, the two senior diplomats were still unable to tie up the treaty's ever unraveling ends. As usual, each of last week's negotiating sessions yielded some progress, but not enough...
Representatives of both sides met for the first time in Lebanon, in January. The P.L.O. security chief, Abu Hoal, assured a delegation from Bonn's antiterrorist unit that his organization was not harboring the Schleyer killers. Other discussions have followed, including a Beirut meeting two weeks ago between a legislator from Schmidt's Social Democratic Party and P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat. Bonn officials hope that such contacts will give West German terrorists a sobering sense of isolation. As for the Palestinians and the Libyans, they apparently want to dissociate themselves from pure anarchists like the Red Army Faction...
DIED. Marvella Bayh, 46, vivacious blond wife of Democratic Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana and ardent fund raiser for the American Cancer after her own bout with the disease began in 1971; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. An Oklahoma beauty queen, Marvella Hern met her husband when she defeated him in the finals of an American Farm Bureau speaking contest. Known to Indiana friends as Marvelous Marvella, Bayh survived a 1954 auto accident that left her partially blinded for three years, a plane crash ten years later in which she and Edward Kennedy were injured, and the trauma...
...cultural revolutionary. But her view still holds; as an essayist and a power in New York literary circles, Hardwick has kept her distance from trendy tastes. There are books and there is literature, she told a gathering of writers and publishers last year, adding that she had never met anyone who bought a book on the bestseller lists...
...seems to be the case every year, the J.V.s once again go into the sprints as heavy favorites. "We've met the enemy and he is us." Cooley said yesterday, explaining that it is up to Harvard to determine the margin of victory...