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...world's attention with their edge-of-the-abyss maneuvers over the past several months, a subtle shift has been taking place in another significant set of Middle East relationships. Largely under the aegis of Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco, the U.S. has been moving to repair its badly damaged position in the Arab world. Today U.S.-Arab relations are better than they have been at any time since the Six-Day War of 1967, and as one American diplomat puts it, "Joe is there pulling all the strings...
Parchamovsky faced a total bill of at least $944.35, or 59% of the average Soviet annual wage. Fortunately for Parchamovsky, the agent knew a black-market garage where he could get a new fender installed immediately, so the repair cost a mere...
...lines in 20,000 homes to avoid explosions, then faced what an official called a "monumental undertaking" to restore service. At Sylmar, telephone equipment was described as "just a jumbled mess." A major artery linking power circuits between the Pacific Northwest and Southern California will take 18 months to repair...
Assembly included one unexpected element. If Israel would pull back partially from the Suez Canal, he promised, Egypt would begin to repair the waterway to accommodate international traffic once more. The Russians would certainly like such a move; with the canal opened again, it would be easier to supply their growing naval force in the Indian Ocean. But Sadat was also making a studied attempt to demonstrate his new administration's sense of responsibility as a member of the world community. In some key respects, Sadat's Suez Canal offer is vague. He did not indicate, for instance...
...first lesson from Nader and Co. is how to avoid buying a trouble-plagued car. Nader suggests that the cautious purchaser should steer away from delicate options like automatic speed controls, eyelid headlamp covers, power windows and power antenna-all of which have a high frequency-of-repair record. But heavy-duty suspension, says the book, is "a must, even for urban driving." The buyer should hire an outside mechanic to check over the car before accepting delivery from a dealer...