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...talks that Carter "went through 75 minutes, without notes, and he showed a total command of all the problems he raised." The one disagreement was over Carter's insistence that India must be ready to comply with a law that Congress is expected to pass requiring on-site inspection of any nuclear materials the U.S. sells to other nations. Desai just as adamantly insisted that as a matter of "self-respect" India cannot accept such inspection-at least until the U.S. and U.S.S.R. start reducing their own nuclear stockpiles. Carter agreed to sell India the heavy water and uranium...
...next stop was Egypt's Aswan, site of the huge Soviet-built dam that stands as a reminder of the late 1950s and '60s, when Moscow and Cairo were on friendly terms. U.S. officials insisted that this stopover was announced at the last minute because Carter's visit with Hussein had not been confirmed and the President wanted the Jordanian's views before seeing Sadat again. The visit, these officials added unconvincingly, only incidentally involved the fact that Sadat was concerned about Carter's pretrip press conference statement...
...Unknown Soldier, Carter did an abbreviated replay of last January's Pennsylvania Avenue walkathon. He strolled several blocks down the Champs-Elysees with President Giscard, even worrying his Secret Service protectors by striding into curbside crowds. The next day he helicoptered to Normandy and walked along Omaha Beach-site of some of D-day's heaviest fighting-and laid a wreath at the American military cemetery where 9,386 casualties of that epic assault are buried...
Dallas is a trader's town, a place for shrewd operators from the time of its founding in 1840, on a likely river crossing, by a canny settler of the Texas Republic's northern Indian frontier. Roads and rails soon branched away from the site, and Dallas began to do big business in buying, selling, managing and shipping the goods of the Southwest. In succession came buffalo hides, cotton, wheat and oil, banks to make loans for a percentage of the profits and insurance companies to underwrite them. It is a city of wealth wrought with sharp pencils and calculating...
Relocation of the Morton Prince House from Divinity Ave. to a site adjacent to Hurlburt Hall on Prescott street has been postponed from early October to sometime in late March, Paul F. Leahy, associate dean for planning and resources, said yesterday...