Word: soon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signing, Carter feared that a last-minute hitch might bring the whole thing crashing down once more. On Sunday night there was a flurry of concern when the President was told that Begin had gone to the Egyptian embassy to see Sadat about some agreements still not made. But soon word came that the two men had worked out the problem of how and when Israel was to turn back the Sinai oilfields to Egypt...
Adds former Under Secretary of State George Ball: "The treaty is a very useful achievement only if it is followed up. If it is not, it could cause more harm than good." Ball suggests several steps Washington should soon take. For one thing, he urges the Administration to open "immediate, direct discussions with the Palestine Liberation Organization so that the Arabs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank can feel that they have some representation." According to Ball, Washington's recently repeated offer to negotiate with the P.L.O. only if it recognizes Israel is evidence that the Administration...
...from Cairo to Tunis. Technical and financial assistance to Egypt will be canceled. A ban on petroleum shipments to Egypt will be imposed. It was unclear, though, how all this would affect bilateral agreements like Saudi aid. In any case, it is likely that Arab heads of state will soon confer to determine exactly how the anti-Egyptian boycott will be carried...
...Soviet ships have also made port calls at Danang, and Vietnamese troops are being flown around the country in Soviet aircraft. Concerned about the fragility of the ceasefire, one Hanoi-based Western diplomat glumly predicts: "I rate the chance of a further round of fighting rather high and very soon...
Ayckbourn never strays from the subjects he knows so well: English suburbia and the slightly sad, but always funny problems of the married, the formerly married and the soon-to-be unmarried. "It is a rich source of comedy," he says. "Everything that is most horrifying and wonderful happens in marriage." He should know. His mother, a novelist, divorced his father, first violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra, when Alan, the only child, was five. She married a bank manager, who did not hide his dislike of Alan. They were later divorced...