Word: presented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Begin, who seems to have an exquisite sense of when the breaking point is near, suddenly became conciliatory. He said that he would present these "serious proposals" to his Cabinet. If it supported them, he added, they would be sent to the Knesset. And if the proposals were defeated there, his government would resign. Begin, in fact, was almost effusive as he bade Carter farewell at Ben-Gurion. Said he: "You came on the highest mission in humanity, for peace, and you have succeeded." Then he added: "Now, of course, it is the turn of Egypt...
Perhaps the biggest question is whether Carter can resist the requests from both Egypt and Israel for aid beyond the amounts involved in supporting the treaty. The defense ministers of both nations arrived in Washington last week to present their shopping lists. Egypt is seeking help to buy 600 M-60 tanks, 300 F-16 fighter aircraft, 70 transport planes, and up to eight destroyers or submarines. In nonmilitary aid, Egypt wants funds for housing, agricultural production and a new telephone system. In arms alone, Israel wants various tanks, naval guns, missile systems and armored personnel carriers...
Jean Monnet: 1888-1979 he sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present. They cannot ensure their own progress or control their own future. And the European Community itself is only a stage on the way to the organized world of tomorrow...
...paladins of the Great White Way" while they convinced him that a succession of scripts needed "a lot of work." The end result, Home Again, with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Barbara Fried, is a melodic history of an American family from 1925 up to the present time...
...Euclid Avenue--J.B. Jackson's told us in Gas Stations that a Euclid Avenue address used to be roughly analogous in prestige to one on Park Avenue or present-day Sunset Boulevard--stands the University's physical education building, which houses the best swimming pool in the United States, and quite possibly the world...