Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pyramids, to lay the groundwork for full-scale peace talks. At the very moment that the session was being called to order, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was headed for Washington to meet with President Carter, a sudden summit conference arranged in a matter of hours at Begin's request. After two meetings with Carter-one early Friday, one late Saturday-Begin said that he would confer with Sadat in Egypt within the next several days, probably over the Christmas weekend. The determination to keep the peace initiative moving was invigorating and bold. But it also revealed the degree...
...counterespionage, and out of the control of the Justice Department. Within 48 hours of the assassination. J. Edgar Hoover sanctioned the refusal of his underlings to follow an order from his superio, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. "Properly handled." commented Hoover after a bureau official had dismissed a Kennedy request as "unnecessary and undesirable." The FBI spied on the Texas judge who presided over the Jack Ruby trial, on the director of Central Intelligence and on the Warren Commission itself. The bureau engaged a friendly Republican Congressman and commission member to keep it posted on the closed-door sessions...
...from 45 countries, 750 wines and a highly prized condiment known as Arizona champagne mustard sauce (used with meat and fish and as a glaze for ham). Houston's Jim Jamail & Sons imports such esoterica as Maine cacklebird, Indian quail and Finnish grouse?and recently filled a client's request for 48 Ibs. of African elephant meat (which was cut into steaks and broiled...
...California Test of Mental Maturity, to avoid "identifying a child with a fixed number." Instead, the firm is promoting a new Short Form Test of Academic Aptitude. It reports verbal and nonverbal scores separately, rather than one intelligence quotient-although a mental-age score is still available upon request...
...committee found that Thomas had actually filed an MUA with Harvard officials on November 2, but the statement did not reach the NIH until December 9, too late to be considered before the request for information came from the Environmental Defense Fund...