Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trip to Jerusalem. Last Wednesday, exactly 26 days later, Egyptian and Israeli delegates were sitting down together in a Cairo conference room, in the very shadow of the pyramids, to lay the groundwork for full-scale peace talks. At the very moment that the session was being called to order, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was headed for Washington to meet with President Carter, a sudden summit conference arranged in a matter of hours at Begin's request. After two meetings with Carter-one early Friday, one late Saturday-Begin said that he would confer with Sadat in Egypt within...
...after five years of stern rule appears to be performing relatively well. According to the government, unemployment has dropped from 7% to 4.5%, inflation is down from 45% to 7% annually, real gross national product last year increased by 7.6%. There is also widespread appreciation of the law-and-order the regime has established. Foreign businessmen, for instance, have been attracted by liberal investment terms and the fact that as a result of martial law there are no more rowdy private armies harassing them out of tribute. But just to make certain that people knew exactly to whom they were...
...Madagascar, 260 miles to the west. Madagascar's President Didier Ratsiraka last month announced that his Marxist republic is the rightful owner not only of Tromelin but of three other small French islands: Europa, Juan de Nova and Glorieuses. It is said that Ratsiraka wants Tromelin in order to establish a Soviet base there. That seems unlikely: because of the coral reefs, large ships could never venture inshore, and Tromelin is so small that a large airplane would run out of island before it could brake to a stop...
...Bernard Simon, 65, chief of plastic surgery at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital, came into the kitchen after a long illness. In order to prepare low-cholesterol foods that would not tax his damaged heart, he studied Chinese and Italian cuisine. But he soon found other reasons to cook. "At this point in my life," he says, "I would rather give than take. I find cooking a very gracious, warm and nurturing kind of thing to offer people...
...Companies that make mixers have been adding attachments that will do the same tasks as food processors. Some 750,000 processors have been sold in the U.S. so far this year, with projected 1978 sales of 2 million. Herewith an evaluation of the most popular processors, listed in descending order of price, followed by the bestselling mixers that have processor attachments...