Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then why is everyone thinking only about getting his car started? Carmen is short, rumpled, well seasoned. And direct. "Look," he says, "this is a very sophisticated state. Everyone has seen a President. Nearly everyone has seen several Presidents...
...exchange ambassadors and establish normal diplomatic relations. Egypt will end its economic boycott of Israel and grant Israeli ships and cargoes the right of passage through the Suez Canal. Israel will be permitted to buy oil from the Sinai fields that will be returned to Egypt. If Israel runs short of oil during the next 15 years, the U.S. has promised to make up the difference. Egypt and Israel will open their borders to each other's citizens and will eventually sign agreements on other trade and cultural exchanges...
...short, the U.S. does well by doing good. What is needed is a reorganization of the aid program in order to centralize its di rection, clarify its aims and display to the U.S. people that its lofty missions can produce down-to-earth results. As the early reaction to Carter's multibillion-dollar pledge in the Middle East showed last week, the nation is willing enough to assist other peoples if there is a reasonable promise that the investment will produce political or humanitarian benefits. -Frank Trippett
Experience shows that such safety features work. In 1975, a workman using a candle to test for air leaks accidentally started an electrical fire in the Browns Ferry nuclear plant at Athens, Ala. The fire short-circuited cables controlling the primary cooling system, causing loss of some of the nuclear-core cooling water. But nothing even close to a meltdown ensued. Although one of the back-up cooling systems was also disabled, technicians used other emergency circuits to cool the reactor down long before the situation approached the critical stage...
...think that some fault does lie with the organizers, we feel that Fried ignored and was unsympathetic to other inherent difficulties which the conference faced: e.g., that this was the first venture ever of its kind, that all money had to be raised by students, that there was a short amount of time to get organized, and that there exists at all of the colleges a general student apathy. Here we should point out two facts concerning Harvard's participation. First, The Crimson did very little reporting on the conference, to the point that the $200 Assembly grant which...