Word: nearly
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Begin, who seems to have an exquisite sense of when the breaking point is near, suddenly became conciliatory. He said that he would present these "serious proposals" to his Cabinet. If it supported them, he added, they would be sent to the Knesset. And if the proposals were defeated there, his government would resign. Begin, in fact, was almost effusive as he bade Carter farewell at Ben-Gurion. Said he: "You came on the highest mission in humanity, for peace, and you have succeeded." Then he added: "Now, of course, it is the turn of Egypt...
...down the federal budget deficit, advocates of various domestic programs are clamoring for more money, and inflation is a foremost concern of Americans. White House aides scoff at any inflationary impact of the treaty. "It's just a flea bite on that elephant," says one. But as the near euphoria over the peace treaty fades and the costs linger−and most likely increase−congressional and public resistance to paying the price could yet prove a formidable problem...
First had come the numbing photos: nearly 900 colorfully clad bodies clustered near a vat of poison. Next, the anguished accounts of the bewildering tragedy by its few survivors. Last week, nearly four months after they had occurred, the mass deaths at Jonestown in the remoteness of Guyana's jungles took on a new and far more personal dimension. Americans sat in their living rooms and heard the actual sounds of the Peoples Temple dying...
...during the invasion. Said a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman: "They broke people's skulls with gun butts, stabbed people with spears, beheaded them, chopped people into portions, threw hand grenades into people's shelters, rounded up people and then opened fire on them." In one ham let near Lang Son, the spokesman charged, seven children were taken from their beds and chopped into pieces, which were then thrown into a courtyard. In the Ba Xat district, he said, Peking's troops raped Vietnamese women workers before sending them to China as captives...
...wrote Jean Monnet, the "Father of the European Community" and the universally respected model of today's supranational civil servant. When Monnet died at the age of 90 last week, in his modest country home near Paris, his dream of a United States of Europe, linked both politically and economically, remained unfinished. But Monnet was a patient man. "I'm not an optimist," he once said, "I am simply persistent," and thus he may have been pleased by the progress that had been made toward his overriding vision. Last week, at a summit meeting in Paris, leaders...