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That same evening, the two Presidents helicoptered to the seclusion of nearby Camp David, the Catoctin Mountain retreat where seven previous U.S. Presidents have sought diplomatic privacy with other world leaders. The press was barred, and even Washington's eager officialdom was reduced to a select handful.* Carter and Sadat had some 50 hours available for candid and unfettered discussion...
...department will select ten to 15 firms, probably auto-repair services, and subsidize their purchase of electric cars. Over the next three years, these companies will buy 2,500 electrics and possibly some hybrids (which switch over to gasoline engines for high-speed, long-distance driving). The cars should cost from $3,000 to $7,000, of which the Government will pay perhaps $1,000. The selected firms?there are already 49 applicants ?will sell or lease the cars to the public at discount prices. Drivers will register their impressions with the dealers, who will service the cars...
...group's subsequent invasion of the American media has exposed the Monty Python brand of humor to a large number of comedy consumers in the U.S. Gone is the thrill of belonging to a select cult based on its privileged initiation into the artistic pleasures of a little-known comedy troupe. Thanks to a deluge of Monty Python re-runs on the boob tube, the re-release of their many records at regular prices (as opposed to the exorbitant prices of imported discs), and three uneven movies, the Monty Python material has become an all-too-familiar sound to these...
Another imbalance exists in the types of stories newsmen select to cover, Freed said. While a "flashy story, such as South Korean Tong Sun Park's alleged bribing of Congressmen, receives a lot of coverage, a more important story, such as American troop withdrawal from Korea, receives comparatively little," he said...