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...executives, technicians and assembly-line workers already assigned to the B-1 from Long Island and Cincinnati to Los Angeles and Seattle talked gloomily of hunting for new jobs. The probability that lots of them would eventually find work on other military projects did little to soften the blow. Said one official at Rockwell's sprawling Los Angeles plant: "This was the best-kept secret since the atom bomb. And that's the way it hits...
...Moshe Dayan and one independent. Begin had hoped to build a sturdier and broader-based coalition by getting the support of the centrist, 15-member Democratic Movement for Change. Talks between the parties bogged down on foreign policy. To the dismay of DMC Leader Yigael Yadin, Likud refused to soften its stand on the West Bank or on the issue of new Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. The DMC also objected to Begin's choice of Dayan as Foreign Minister. Yadin's party temporarily broke off negotiations, and Begin left three vacancies in his 16-member Cabinet...
...record-breaking wheat crops were harvested worldwide last year, cutting into American farmers' export markets. The U.S. consumes only about two-fifths of its wheat crop, relying on foreign buyers to gobble up the rest. Another bounteous global grain crop is forecast for this year, which will further soften demand for U.S. wheat. The Soviet Union, for example, is likely to gather in a near record 215 million tons of grain this year, just 4% less than last year's peak...
...that the two agreed on all particulars. Carter has suggested that in a Middle East settlement Israel might be permitted to maintain some kind of defense lines beyond its actual borders. Nothing doing, said Sadat. "Sovereignty is indivisible. We can't have two borders." Sadat did soften his position.on Israel, however, saying that he envisaged full normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab states within about five years of the signing of a peace agreement. Previously, he had said only that Israel's security would be guaranteed, not that normal diplomatic relations would be established. Sadat pressed...
...return to the States, is brilliantly manic as he engineers the blimp-massacre to strike back at America for himself and to aid the terrorists at the same time. Robert Shaw plays a professional Israeli commando tailing the Black September group who is on the verge of beginning to soften and see the other side's point of view, and he conveys the tension between self-doubt and the need to stay tough for appearances with great finesse. Only Marthe Keller, as the bitter Palestinian woman who masterminds the plot, comes up wooden--she seems a little too cold...