Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lunch was more social than businesslike. The three leaders and their wives dined modestly in the family quarters. Outside, the crowd was gathering and the sounds filtered up through the tall windows. As so often happens in such relaxed circumstances, the three men began to talk history. The last time a treaty between the people of Israel and of Egypt had been signed, Begin related, was 3,000 years ago. King Solomon had made an agreement with a Pharaoh. "I'll bet no one remembers the mediator," said Jimmy Carter...
...largest dinner in White House history was also a once-in-a-lifetime test for White House Social Secretary Gretchen Poston. Presidential aides had worked up a guest list that included, in addition to the Egyptian and Israeli delegations, past or potential political supporters of Jimmy Carter (politics is never far from the mind of a White House aide), Arab and Jewish leaders in the U.S., business and labor moguls, congressional leaders and members of the press corps. Poston stayed up all night Sunday working out the seating arrangements at the 134 tables. Secretaries were frantically typing the 15-page...
Higginbotham is a judge on the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. He is author of "In the Matter of Color," published in 1978, a book that explores how the legal process contributed to black economic and social exploitation in the colonial period...
Luther M. Ragin Jr. '76, proctor at Greenough and co-founder of the Committee to Reinstate Sherman Holcombe, said yesterday. "What led to his disciplinary action was his vigorous campaign for kitchen workers. He was someone who cared a lot about the social conditions of his fellow workers...
...system of military recruitment that can provide essential manpower," says the man who challenged Richard Nixon for the Presidency in 1972 on the basis of the Indochina debacle. "At the same time, we are failing to utilize a vast reservoir of the nation's youth to meet social, economic, and environmental needs." At the Ford Foundation, McGeorge Bundy, under the guise of a report entitled "Youth and the Needs of the Nation," is bankrolling a lobbying campaign for the national service...