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...reaching an agreement with Arafat under which Fatah would renounce terrorism in favor of a negotiated peace, a deal that collapsed following Sadat's trip to Jerusalem last November. But Fahd's support for Arafat did not waver. When the Israelis invaded southern Lebanon this spring, the first shipment of arms to reach the P.L.O. guerrillas came from Saudi Arabia...
Where on earth did the U.S. Navy acquire a 5.500-ton shipment of radioactive rocks? In Antarctica, where it once (1962-72) operated a nuclear-power station...
...leaders. They wanted me to pay a visit to Moscow. We-the Soviet leaders and I-agreed at our Moscow talks on the need for them to send us a detailed analysis of the situation after [President Richard] Nixon's visit to Moscow in May, preparatory to the shipment to Egypt of all those weapons included in the old contracts. November 1972, when the U.S. presidential campaign would be held, was the agreed deadline. The idea was that we should be adequately prepared by November, when a new American President would have been elected, to resort to military action...
...fired for failing to produce. Bureaucratic controls further cripple efficiency, and managers have little leeway for innovation. Consumer goods are still shoddy and chronically scarce. Long lines form immediately in Warsaw, Prague, Havana, Moscow and other Communist cities at rumors that a shop is about to receive a shipment of such coveted goods as shoes, fresh fish or fruit. Communist leaders boast that their citizens are immune to inflation; but, in fact, continual price hikes are merely artfully concealed by an economy in which wages, prices and even the kinds of goods available are set by the state. For instance...
...feed poisoned more than cattle. Cats, rats, earthworms and even flies died on the farm soon after the first PBB grain shipment, Jones said. And it affected his family...