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Shortly afterward, Carter invited Begin back to the White House. In an eight-minute meeting, Carter told him of his plan to fly to the Middle East to obtain Egypt's acceptance of the compromise. Leaving the President's office, Begin flashed a "thumbs up" sign to an aide and exclaimed, "Good news! World news!" Cutting short his trip to the U.S. by one day, he flew home and declared, "This has been a good week for Israel...
Before writing this week's cover story on the hot war for ratings points among the three commercial television networks, Associate Editor Gerald Clarke staged his own offensive to obtain appointments with the top official at each. After loosing a barrage of phone calls and an enfilade of promises to "go anywhere any time" to meet them, Clarke finally managed to interview CBS's Paley and ABC's Pierce in Manhattan, and helped arrange a breakfast in Beverly Hills between NBC's Silverman and Correspondent James Willwerth. That triple play represents the first time all three...
...spokesman, who asked not to be identified, added that the office is encouraging the students to find on- or off-campus jobs this semester. The students may also receive loans and other forms of financial assistance from the University until they obtain funds from Iran...
...locust swarms. Its only known resource is a uranium deposit far in the north. Perhaps it is Chad's poverty (annual per capita income: $120) that makes its religious and ethnic rivalries so fierce. With so little to go around, each side must fight all the harder to obtain a life-sustaining share...
Snake dishes do not come cheap. A bowl of ordinary snake soup costs from $20 to $160, depending on the type of reptile used, and advocates of reptile recipes say that one must consume at least a bowl a day for ten days to obtain any discernible lift of the libido. Vipers, which are especially recommended for people suffering from neuralgia and tuberculosis, cost $140 each. The yellow python, valued as an all-purpose tonic, costs $200, while the most precious serpent of all, the paik-sa, or albino snake, celebrated for assuring longevity, has been known to bring from...