Word: moving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that China be brought into the mainstream of detente. But all we get from the Chinese is their saying that war is inevitable. If your military relationship with China changes, we will have to reassess the situation. If normalization of your relations with China is part of a general move toward détente, it will be understood as such. Our relations with Peking may also change in time. But if you normalize with China in a way that has definite military and political undertones of an anti-Soviet nature, it may be seen as a sign of something very sinister...
...summer morning, over the objections of her parents, the young woman puts on a Greek wedding dress and marries her lover at the county courthouse. They soon move into a farmhouse on the estate. Three months later, the bride seems despondent. She is found one afternoon lying on the ground with a fatal gunshot wound in her head. A coroner rules that she has committed suicide, and she is buried in the Staunton Hill graveyard, beneath a headstone that bears the Greek words for Little Flower. Her husband moves to Hoover, Ala., works as a stockbroker, and then returns...
...approved, though both the Egyptians and the Israelis had requested some changes. Then, in a bizarre and even provocative gesture, the Israeli government announced that it was launching a $20 million program to "thicken," or beef up, five Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. The move was calculated by Begin and his colleagues to warn the Carter Administration that it must behave more circumspectly in its conduct of the peace negotiations, and the message got through. U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance quickly rebuked the Begin government, saying that the U.S. considered the Israeli action...
What Washington did not anticipate was that the Israelis would violate the spirit, if not the letter, of Camp David by announcing plans to thicken their settlements while the Washington talks were still going on. Indeed, the move came as Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman were returning to Washington at midweek to resume negotiations with Egypt and the U.S. Moreover, in a startling statement that was calculated to antagonize not only Carter but every leader in the Arab world, Begin proposed that his own office, as well as that of his Foreign Minister, should be moved...
...supplied army. It would like to station some of its forces in Syrian territory opposite the Israeli border, but after their years of quarreling with the Iraqis, the Syrians are reluctant to accept such an arrangement. According to Iraqi sources, the new agreement will merely permit Iraqi troops to move into Syria "whenever they are needed...