Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What happened, particularly for the 14,000 who attended the Houston meeting, was an end to the psychological isolation that had constrained their activities and ambitions. They learned that many other middle-of-the-road , American-as-Mom's-apple-pie women shared with them a sense of second-class citizenship and a craving for greater social and economic equality. Said Ida Castro, an alternate delegate from New Jersey: "It was a total high to get together and discover so many people who agree on so many issues, and finding that I am not alone." Perhaps more important, many women...
...Sadat probably had a right to declare himself "100% satisfied" with his trip. Although he returned home without specific concessions-in fact, he did not expect any, at least not right away-the Egyptian President had suddenly transformed the nature and direction of Middle East diplomacy. Once more the road to Geneva was open, and the possibility of a Middle East settlement was something more than a distant dream...
Israeli diplomats have insisted on maintaining a military presence at Sharm el Sheikh as a way of guaranteeing that ships will have unhindered access through the Gulf of Aqaba to the port of Eilat. Egypt would lease to Israel Sharm el Sheikh and an access road along the western shore of the Gulf of Aqaba for a stated period-perhaps 20 years. An alternative is to place a U.N. force at Sharm el Sheikh and give Israel inspection rights. Most experts agree that Israel's stated strategic concern about the Aqaba Gulf is irrelevant. Whether cargoes get through...
...symbolic winner in the election was Andreas Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), which doubled its vote to 25% and won 92 seats, thereby becoming Greece's second leading party and the main opposition. PASOK overtook George Mavros' middle-of-the-road Democratic Center Union, which fell to 12% of the vote and won only 15 seats. On the far right, the new National Rally Party won 7% and five seats; on the far left, Greece's two Communist parties-one Moscow-lining, the other Eurocommunist in outlook and running jointly with other splinter groups-garnered...
...jack & neal, he shifts gears to tell of a cross-country drive to California in the company of a nurse. It has all the gusty exhilaration of Kerouac's On the Road...