Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joint Soyuz-Apollo mission of 1975, whose main theme was mutual assistance in space. Besides, which would be more embarrassing: To ask the Russians for help, or to face possible casualties, billion-dollar indemnification suits and unforeseen political consequences if 85 tons of flaming fragments land in some sensitive region of the earth...
Despite petty complaints that he was not putting aside enough time to meet citizens or plunge into politics along the way (an odd protest from a region where he is not politically popular), the vacationing President quite fittingly was seeing parts of America at its unspoiled best. All too soon, he would have to assume once again the burdens of office. Instead effacing the fleeting question of whether he would land the dancing trout he had just hooked, he would confront Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin across a conference table at Camp David and struggle with...
...planning). But Assad has parted company with the Soviets over their policy in Ethiopia, where he continues to support the breakaway Eritrean rebels. He also has improved relations with Washington, which allocated his government $90 million in aid this year. Recently, Assad opened up Syria's northeast oil region to two American companies?a sign, some aides say, of his intention to reduce further his country's dependency on Moscow and adopt a completely nonaligned position...
...sample of the prices and pitches at New Jersey's Englishtown Auction Sales, the largest flea market in the mid-Atlantic region: $3.75 for a solid leather belt ("Why pay a buck for a bonded belt that will become brittle and broken?"); a still-to-be-dickered price for a potbellied-stove door ("When you need it, you need it"); $1.75 for a goldfish ("You get the bowl, you get the sand, you get the fish, you get two weeks' supply of fish food"). Says Steve Sobechko, who owns the Englishtown market: "It's a great recycling...
...center of all the furor was a four-story red brick building in the old textile mill town of Oldham in the northwest region of England. There, in a guarded room of the maternity section of Oldham and District General Hospital, Lesley Brown, 30, a resident of Bristol, was being tended in her final month of pregnancy. For nine years she and her husband Gilbert John, 38, a van driver for British Rail, had futilely tried to have a child. Now, finally, the Browns were on the verge of achieving their hearts' desire?in a most spectacular manner. Early...