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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right to their own state. While the U.S. is prepared to honor its promise to Israel and veto such a motion, Washington wants the kind of compromise resolution that Strauss outlined to Begin. In theory this might prompt P.L.O. acceptance of 242 and remove the main obstacle to open U.S.-P.L.O. contacts, thus leading to Palestinian participation in the autonomy talks...
...Guevara and Jane Fonda. Inside the massive central department store, no amount of artful deployment of bicycle parts and condensed milk can hide the fact that little is being produced for public consumption. While officials claim that more than 20% of the economy works on an "open market" basis, the only items private hawkers sell are vegetables, spices and such miscellany as incense, pith helmets and plastic shoes. With monthly family incomes averaging $30 and prices up more than 600% above 1975 levels, few can afford anything beyond necessities. Just since 1978, observes one Western ambassador, "the standard of living...
...film ostensibly describes the rehearsal of an unnamed piece by the late film composer Nino Rota. But very quickly Fellini bends his dramatic situation into a cautionary tale about the dangers of anarchy. The musicians begin by goofing off and refusing to play together; then they break into open, violent revolt against their German conductor (played by Bald win Baas); finally they calm down and accept their leader's authority. The film's ominous finale shows the conductor barking Hitler-like commands to his now submissive charges. In other words, Fellini is making the conservative point that revolution...
...future looked bleak for Roosje, or Little Rose. The latest member of the famed open-air chimpanzee colony at The Netherlands' Burgers Dierenpark, near Arnhem, she had been born to a handicapped mother who could not care...
Style is character, the author pronounces in italics. She then describes O'Keeffe in terms that sound like her ambitions for her own character: "She is simply hard, a straight shooter, a woman clean of received wisdom and open to what she sees...