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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WEDNESDAY. Sadat visits Carter at Aspen. They sit on back porch overlooking pool. First surprise of conference: Sadat has detailed, ten-page proposal for West Bank and Gaza problems. Some points old and often rejected by Israel: total Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories, even the flying of Arab flags over Jerusalem. But Sadat also offers security provisions for Israel. Americans see hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ordeal In the Mountains | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...California, State Supreme Court justices can usually afford to sit high above the political fray. Once appointed by the Governor, they need face the voters only for a yes or no vote at the next gubernatorial election before serving a twelve-year term, and in the past that public endorsement has proved to be little more than a rubber stamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Bird Hunt | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

When asked how he will spend his time in Cambridge he said, "I will sit and read," but added that he is willing to meet undergraduates because "it is important to know what young people feel about world affairs...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: New CfIA Fellows Include African, Asian Affairs Experts | 9/27/1978 | See Source »

Taxi (Tuesday, ABC, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T.). When a sitcom has this title, it is easy to guess what the show will be like: a crew of crabby New York cabbies, each one more eccentric than the last, will sit around a garage and trade wisecracks. Well, Taxi conforms to those anticipations, but only up to a point. There are plenty of laughs but no wisecracks. The cabbies are eccentric but they are not caricatures. There are even moments when the laughter stops. At those times, Taxi doesn't seem like a sitcom at all: it revs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1978-79 Season: III | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

Each evening they stroll through the streets of Rome, she holding fondly on to his arm. Then Author Simone de Beauvoir, 70, and Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, 73, sit and sip aperitifs at an outdoor cafe and dine in their favorite restaurants in the Piazza Navona. The Parisian couple's mutual devotion during 49 years of intimacy is nearly matched by their attachment to Rome-where they have spent part of every summer for the past 25 years. "We have no work plans at all right now," says Beauvoir. "We're just enjoying our vacation." As a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 25, 1978 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

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