Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Arab reaction was negative, abusive and even violent. Libya broke relations with Egypt and demanded its expulsion from the Arab League. Radio Baghdad called the trip a "Pan-Arab catastrophe" and Sadat himself a traitor. Saiqa, the Syrian-backed Palestinian group vowed to assassinate Sadat for committing "the ugliest treason" in Arab history. Syria declared a day of mourning and lowered flags to half-staff. In Lebanon, where Syrian peace-keeping troops have forbidden protest demonstrations, the ban was lifted during Sadat's trip...
Arab opposition to the trip was based on three specific worries: 1) Sadat might abandon the Pan-Arab cause and seek a separate peace agreement with Israel; 2) the Egyptian President, by setting foot in Israel, was granting de facto recognition to a state that radical Arabs refuse to accept; 3) in speaking to the Knesset, he was also acknowledging Israel's right to consider Jerusalem as its capital (even the U.S. maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv). Attempting to blunt such criticism in advance of his trip, Sadat last week flew to Damascus to confer with Syrian President Hafez...
Plimpton's preoccupation with the death fantasies of his literary contemporaries makes one wonder: perhaps Plimpton is, despite his Peter Pan outlook on life, feeling the weight of his 50 years...
...filled with 54 freighters-half break-bulk and being unloaded, half containerized and untouched by strikers' hands. Goods are also being shipped in containers through West Coast ports, which are not struck. The increased traffic has taxed facilities there, but sellers have still another trade route: air freight. Pan American's airfreight business via Kennedy Airport was up a third over last October. Prices of some air-freighted goods have risen to cover the added shipping costs: Bloomingdale's, the big Manhattan department store, has tacked 40? per Ib. onto the price of cheese flown in from...
...airline fares apply only at certain times of the year. In the following rundown of round-trip fares, the first is offered by Laker alone; the rest have been authorized for the six other and much bigger lines flying the route (Air-India, British Airways, El Al, Iran-Air, Pan...