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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because so much has in fact been accomplished, the failure to meet the Dec. 17 deadline, while certainly disappoint ing, does not necessarily doom the Egyptian-Israeli peace process. As a result of the progress made during talks in Washington in October and November, Egypt and Israel agree on most points of a draft treaty. The unresolved issues are truly mi nor, although they relate to the crux of a major Middle Eastern diplomatic problem: How directly should an Egypt-Israel peace be linked to a general Arab-Israeli settlement? So far, the negotiating process has proved remarkably durable, surviving...
...Student George E. Uhlenbeck determined that an electron spins as it orbits the nucleus of an atom, a discovery that helped explain how atoms have magnetic properties. Two years later, he emigrated to the U.S., and during World War II served on a secret European mission to investigate German progress toward the atomic bomb...
...want to negate the progress occurring in South Africa? Robert Lenzner of The Boston Globe (Dec. 2, 1978, page 14) reports that a study done by the Arthur D. Little consulting company of Cambridge shows that 75 percent of the 81 corporations who signed equal employment pledges this year have ended discrimination. Mr. Lenzner added that medical and insurance benefits for blacks have improved, to the point of equality in most cases. The Christian Science Monitor (Dec. 4, 1978, page 32) said in an editorial that South Africa's new minister for black affairs, Pieter Koornhof, has made "no less...
...whole case-by-case approach is unrealistic. I said that it was impractical at last year's corporation hearing, and I believe the same thing now. This year's progress has not even met my meager expectations. Half of the committee has studied, though not evaluated according to plan, three corporations. That's as far as we have gotten. A unified treatment is necessary for this reason and others which I listed in Appendix C of the last ACSR report...
...Western Europe? Why was it that the U.S., West Germany and Japan were so advanced, while China, with a superior system of socialism, was not? And what, by the way, did the Western correspondents think was really happening at the meeting of the Chinese Politburo then in progress...