Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staff who worked on this week's Show Business story underwent a remarkable transformation. They all began by assuming that Muppets were strictly for kids, but they ended up shaking Kermit's hand, being cautious in the presence of Statler and Waldorf, and avoiding the near lethal karate chops of Miss Piggy. "It's magic," says Reporter-Researcher Janice Castro. "The Muppets have something that is real: straightforward humanity. All of their feelings are right out front. How can you not believe that they are real?" When Castro donned Trashman's costume, she even found herself...
...hand. 'I have some joyful news,' he said, and related Hua's announcement. There were handshakes all around. The feelings of the man on the street may not have been as enthusiastic as Ho's, but most Chinese felt some satisfaction over the change. A Communist border guard near Hong Kong spotted a tourist's American passport, broke into a broad grin and exclaimed: 'We're friends...
...angry mob threw eggs and rocks at the U.S. embassy on Taipei's Chung Hsiao West Road. Some 2,000 tried to storm an American compound and were driven back by Marines with tear gas. Near by, students daubed slogans on white sheets taped to the walls. One message: "We protest American recognition of the Communist bandits. We will oppose Communism to the death...
...Israelis were shocked by the proposals Vance had brought from Cairo, and especially by the implicit endorsement of them by the U.S. To Jerusalem, this amounted to adding "new elements" in a negotiating process that, the Israelis felt, was near completion. In its special session, Begin's Cabinet condemned the Egyptian proposals as "inconsistent with the Camp David framework, or not included in it" and declared that it "rejects the attitude and interpretation...
...abuse." The delegates will not be any happier with the ex-ambassador's account of his U.N. days. His scathing description of the organization: "Envision the British Home Office of 1900 enlarged five hundredfold, teeming with the incompetent appointees of decadent peers and corrupt borough councillors, infiltrated and near to immobilized by agents of the Black Hand, Sinn Fein and the Rosicrucians (some falsely representing themselves as devotees of Madame Blavatsky...