Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Events in Mecca were being followed closely and with great concern in Tunisia, where 20 Arab heads of state, plus Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat, had gathered for their annual meeting. An honor guard wearing plumed gold helmets presented arms with drawn swords as the leaders trooped into Tunis...
Sadat and his official party, which included former U.S. Envoy Robert Strauss, were then driven to nearby St. Catherine's monastery. There the Egyptian President was shown the site where Moses, according to tradition, saw God in a burning bush; Sadat was given a three-foot tendril snipped from...
"President Carter's wife," the newsman said. The rejoinder: "Who is President Carter?"
Shortly after the embassy takeover, correspondents began to feel menaced by the surging crowds, and many bought Iranian-style clothes to blend in. (One hot seller: a Korean-made khaki jacket favored by militant students.) Tensions subsided when Khomeini ordered his countrymen not to harm foreigners, but President Carter'...
Ratso Rizzo, the crippled hustler of Midnight Cowboy. The grizzled old codger of Little Big Man. The myopic counterfeiter of Papillon. The eager virgin of The Graduate. Carl Bernstein of All the President's Men. Dustin Hoffman has played them all in a career of dazzling virtuosity. But in...