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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...settlement when he denounced it as "completely negative." In desperation, moderate Palestinians may eventually be willing to go along with any Sadat-Begin arrangement for the West Bank and Gaza. If that happens, radicals would desert Arafat and coalesce around the irreconcilable George Habash and his Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
...correspondent for the West German magazine Stern, his most moving moment may have come during dinner with another Israeli at a restaurant near the pyramids. When the proprietor discovered the diners' identities, the restaurant's small band immediately struck up the stirring strains of Hava Nagila, the popular Israeli folk song. Said Tal.later: "Can you imagine what it was like for me to hear that song played in Egypt? It was like a dream." Moving about the capital, other Israelis often found themselves the focus of friendly curiosity. Reported TIME Photographer David Rubinger, an Israeli citizen: "My left...
...autos are the first popular-price front-wheel-drive cars to be built in the U.S. Dressed up with carpeting, radio and white walls, they will sell at a base cost of $3,706 (tax and title extra). The price, combined with an overall mileage rating of 30 m.p.g., will certainly help Chrysler compete with imports like the stripped-down Volkswagen Rabbit, which has just gone up to $4,030. With its share of the market at just 12%, the lowest since the early '60s, Chrysler is gambling $350 million on the new models. First-year projections...
...Billy Graham, who has preached in person to 80 million souls so far, will invade the very citadel of sin, Las Vegas, the first week in February. At age 59, the grand old man of Evangelicalism is as popular and active as ever. Last week he brought the Gospel to 75,000 people at Nehru Stadium in Madras, India. About 1,500 accepted his invitation to "come forward saying 'Yes' to Jesus Christ." Graham's Minneapolis office now receives $28.7 million a year from the 8 million apostles on its mailing list...
...ventilation-air conditioning system (HVAC), for example, is so refined that the building will use about 42% less energy than any comparable highrise. The Citicorp offices also have an economical, semiopen design, with walls about three-quarters of the way to the ceiling. One of Citicorp's most popular features: 50 battery-operated messenger wagons ($10,000 apiece) that travel on magnetic strips, stopping every 20 minutes at predestined points to pick up and deliver mail...