Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the past 30 years, Israel and Egypt have waged war. For the past 16 months, these two great nations have waged peace. Today we celebrate a victory-not of a bloody military campaign, but of an inspiring peace campaign. Two leaders who will loom large in the history of nations, President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin, have conducted this campaign with all the courage, tenacity, brilliance and inspiration of any generals who ever led men and machines onto the field of battle...
This is certainly one of the happiest moments in my life. It is a historic turning point of great significance for all peace-loving nations ... Today a new dawn is emerging out of the darkness of the past...
...their old enemies should have on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. And, as the Israelis realized, the hard-won peace with Egypt would not deliver them from the high taxes, the steepening inflation and the ever present army reserve requirements that they have faced in the past...
...yogurt soup, President Carter's national security adviser danced almost every feverish dance. His evening was interrupted only once for a White House call (subject undisclosed). When asked what he thought of the movie, he replied in diplomatic circum-speak: "It was a benign view of a difficult past...
Hailed in the early 1970s on Wall Street as a wunderstock and in the business press as "a savvy marketer to the Third World," ISC is today in deep trouble. In the past two years, it has piled up losses totaling more than $50 million. In February, the American Stock Exchange suspended trading in ISC, after auditors found serious irregularities in the firm's financial records. The company's longtime chairman, J. Thomas Kenneally, 52, was ousted two weeks ago, and the few employees remaining in ISC's lavish skyscraper headquarters have been busy tagging the antique...