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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pound Ridge, N...
...over the American West, billboards touting such curiosities as 60-ft. cacti and petrified armadillos lure travelers from the interstates to the tourist emporiums of dusty towns. Lacking any such magnet, Clayton, N. Mex. (pop. 3,000), a farming and ranching center nine miles from the Texas border, was long, in the words of Local Merchant Leon ("Buster") Zinck, "a forgotten city?even in Albuquerque." But no more. Now Clayton's Union County Fairgrounds boast a unique attraction: a 100-ft.-tall windmill, the first in the land to be built by the Government to supply electricity...
...general election. This is not considered conceivable today. It is, rather, based upon the threat within the President's own Democratic Party. The scenario has as its main cast of characters Carter and his possible Democratic challengers, California Gov. Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.). One or more of these men, many observers are beginning to believe, will serve to deny Carter renomination at the 1980 Democratic National Convention...
...Rebecca N. Byrkit Flagstaff, Ariz...
...behind-the-scenes negotiations, conducted principally by Alfred ("Roy") Atherton, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, it appeared that there were a few more reels to go-and that the action-packed drama might still have a happy ending. Following the breakdown n the political talks, President Carter had urged Sadat not to cancel the military talks, which were then in recess. Sadat agreed not to do so, though Premier Menachem Begin had announced that he would not be sending his delegates back to he Cairo talks. The Egyptian President also said that informal...