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Rosovsky said yesterday that it was unfair to refer to the original document as it had been reworked and amended and was not directly relevant to the current situation...
...wonder that Egyptians now refer to Henry Kissinger as "the American magician." On his fourth whirlwind visit to the Middle East since October, the U.S. Secretary of State last week managed to 1) deliver to Israel a list of prisoners held by the Syrians since the end of the Yom Kippur War; 2) persuade the Israelis to offer Syria preliminary proposals for disengagement on the Golan Heights; 3) restore formal diplomatic relations between Egypt and the U.S., which were broken off in the 1967 Six Day War. Shuttle diplomacy, it seems, is still working...
...title of this quite remarkable French film assumes inflections of meaning as the weights and balances of the relationships shift. It appears at first to refer separately to each of Alexandre's women. The whore would be the desperately promiscuous nurse. The mother appears to be the severe Marie, whose bursts of passion and stern, sometimes hysterical anger draw Alexandre to her. It becomes clear after a time, though, that both Veronika and Marie share the same qualities. They are, in fact, reciprocals of each other, embodiments of the masculine ideal of the female, mother and whore at once...
Independent Texas oilmen, for instance, often ask to lease wells that major oil companies are not operating. Some companies refer all bids to corporate directors, who may take years to answer; Exxon's local executives can usually return a yes or no answer within two weeks. Independent oilmen, indeed, almost unanimously give Exxon credit for not only swift but fair dealing. Many say that Exxon will not sign a sale, purchase or lease contract unless its officials are convinced that the transaction is good for both parties...
...largely unknown First Lady. But since the October War, when Mrs. Sadat spent highly publicized 20-hour days visiting troops, touring hospitals and working as a bandage roller with the Egyptian Red Crescent, she has won over even these youthful critics. Civilians as well as soldiers refer to her by the sobriquet conferred by the armed forces, "Mother of the Fighting...