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Because French cream won't soften those boots...
...embassy communications officer from Nairobi to accompany the students' parents to a rendezvous with the terrorists near Kigoma, Tanzania; and 3) allowed the ransom money to be shipped from London to Dar es Salaam by diplomatic pouch. Kissinger wanted to fire Carter outright, but aides persuaded him to soften the punishment. Summoned to Washington for "consultations," Carter was told to forget about going to Copenhagen...
...Egypt, under an unpublished part of the pact, would pledge to renew annually for three years the mandate of the U.N. Emergency Force now in the buffer zone. It would also allow Israeli cargoes through the Suez Canal, soften its anti-Israel propaganda, pledge not to support efforts by other Arab states to oust Israel from the U.N., and temper its current economic boycott of firms doing business with Israel. Sadat, of course, has already reopened the Suez Canal and twice extended the mandate of the U.N. buffer force. Under the same unpublished codicil, Israel would apparently accept the principle...
...further soften the blow of decontrol, the Administration last week announced it will propose a "windfall profits tax" on oil companies. Details were not spelled out, but they are likely to follow a plan approved last month by the Senate Finance Committee. That plan, which involves an excise tax on crude oil, would take away as much as 90% of the money that oil companies will get from increases in the price of decontrolled crude and return much of the cash to adult citizens through income tax credits or refunds between $24 and $85 a person each year until...
...sensuous joy in handling his sites and materials. Aalto's complex of buildings for the technical university at Otaniemi, with its mighty play of geometric masses, is also a hymn to the humble brick. In Seinajoki, he daringly faced the town hall with curved blue tiles that soften the structure's abrupt angles and change hue from blue to gray to black, depending on the light. In his recently opened North Jutland Museum of the Arts in Aalborg, Denmark, Aalto confronted the most difficult challenge in museum design: natural lighting. Most architects avoid the issue by putting...