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...eating problem that has caused her weight to fluctuate by as many as 60 pounds in one year. Although attractive and healthy looking now, Janice lives from meal to meal in constant fear that she will either go haywire and overeat, or that she will stop eating altogether and revert to the 96-pound anorexic girl she was six years...
...country's No. 1 dairy state, may have retired the award by pulling off his own fleece. Both the Senate and House had agreed that pending the passage of a new farm bill, dairy supports should remain unchanged, rather than being allowed under a legal quirk to revert to a higher rate on Sept. 30, when the 1977 farm law expired. But Proxmire blocked single-handed the compromise measure for a month. By then, more than $1 million had been spent in additional dairy subsidies...
...scene is evidence of an increasingly vocal campaign by some Israelis to stop the final phase of the government's withdrawal from the Sinai next April, when this northern strip of the desert is scheduled to revert to Egypt under the terms of the Camp David peace accords. The focus of the campaign is Yamit, an Israeli settlement of 2,500 situated on a strand of sand beside the Mediterranean. Settled six years ago, Yamit even now is no bigger than a college campus. Behind a 110-ft. wire-mesh antiterrorist fence that looks incongruous in such a peaceful...
...dropped out of the sky at Torrejdn Airbase near Madrid to refuel. As night vanished and Egypt with its sorrow appeared, some of the magic of the assembly was dispelled. At a dinner for the American delegation in Cairo's El Salam Hotel, the three Presidents seemed to revert to form in their toasts. Carter talked of his personal relationship with Sadat. Ford spoke straightforwardly as a representative of the American people. Nixon gave one of his oblique rambling tributes to the banquet waiters and servants, those not famous or "infamous." Protocol had seated Kissinger next to 14-year...
...keeping its view secret. Nor is there a consensus at Rostow's ACDA, which has a problem of its own-Congress is planning to drop "Disarmament" from its title, so a way must be found to pronounce ACA ("Assa" does not seem right) or have it revert to being simply a set of initials. All of which should be resolved before future high-level arms talks with the Soviets are STARTed...