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Once all the hoopla of official dedication and the Dating Game-like rundown of both teams was over, the meet itself was finally stripped down to its barest essentials: strategy and pure competition...
...outward appearances, Carter and Sadat got along chummily, exchanging jokes and embraces with enthusiasm. Their meeting took place in a rundown airport-terminal building, spruced up with new rugs and posh furniture. Also on hand to greet Carter was West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who was visiting Sadat. After a ten-minute meeting with Carter, Schmidt discreetly withdrew; less discreet were West German officials in Bonn who unreasonably complained about the failure of Carter to spend more time with the Chancellor...
Each school day about 20 children, ages five to twelve, bound up the steps of an old brownstone in Chicago's rundown Garfield Park area. They settle quietly in a small classroom crowded with battered desks. Maps and vocabulary lists festoon the walls; books overflow the corners. At 9 o'clock sharp, the tall, no-nonsense teacher begins to stride up and down the rows. "What did Socrates say?" she questions. "The uneducated man is like a leaf blown from here to there, believing whatever he is told," chorus the children. "What did Marcus Aurelius tell...
...ones who face hard political choices. Egypt, with a population of nearly 40 million, is by far the most populous Arab state and has the largest army in the Middle East. Because of Sadat's cool relations with Moscow, Egypt's Soviet-supplied military machine is rundown and short of parts. Nonetheless, another Arab war against Israel would be possible only if Egypt joined in. Jordan has little air support for its small (85,000-man) but well-trained army. Roughly half of Syria's forces are either keeping the peace in Lebanon or guarding the tense...
...conference committee is now trying to iron out the resulting differences. Since there is considerable overlap, a great deal of caucusing is going on between the minicommittees. A rundown of the bill's key provisions and the problems the committee is facing...