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Recently, Sadat had seemed more interested in burnishing his diplomatic image than in destroying Israel. He managed to stall Libyan demands for merger with Egypt. He proposed the establishment of a Palestinian nation, which seemed to indicate that he was trying to separate Egypt's quarrel with Israel from Palestinian territorial demands that scarcely concerned Egypt. Only last week, in what seemed like the most conciliatory move of all, Cairo announced that the U.S.'s Bechtel Corp. had been chosen to construct a new $345 million pipeline between the Gulf of Suez and the Mediterranean (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
Even Latin Americans who challenged his political views found it hard to quarrel with the honor. In such works as the surrealistic poem cycle Residence on Earth, and the massive Canto General, an epic on the origin of the Amer icas, he proved himself to be the continent's most creative and authentic literary voice. In one of its best-known sections, The United Fruit Co., he mockingly writes of "Jehovah" parceling out the universe to "Coca-Cola, Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other entities," while the United Fruit Co. "reserved for itself: the heartland/ And coasts...
...know many members of the Provisional movement consider me a traitor. But for me the ultimate betrayal would be silence," she writes, insisting that her quarrel with the Proves is over their method, not their aim of driving the British out of Ireland. Nonetheless, Maria's defection and the vindictive wrath of the I.R.A. have effectively deprived her of the chance of living safely in her OWn Country. "Curt Prendergast
There is no quarrel between generations, and it is important that I say this. Besides, a young person must understand the responsibility of being young, and if he is a student, must realize that there are other young people the same age who are not students. And if he is a college student, he must consider the young peasant and the young worker. He must speak the language of youth, not only the language of college students, to other college students...
Some residents said that the incident began with a quarrel between a black youth and a white youth and then mushroomed...