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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adapt myself to whatever occurs and seize the opportunity at any moment to fulfill the cause of my people. When I met with President Carter last April, I remember we started discussing the nature of peace. We spent more than one and a half hours trying to reach some sort of understanding and agreement on this. As far as meeting with the Israelis, I told him, "Let me tell you quite openly and candidly and friendly, I can't do this...
TIME'S reasoned proposal for a just peace in the Middle East is basically the sort of settlement some of us have been advocating for a long time. But this peace must come soon. With astonishing rapidity, Israelis develop emotional and historical attachments to land they originally took for temporary security. Arabs, while remembering the glorious victories of past centuries, forget the devastating defeats of recent years with equal speed. Bruce Hardcastle Washington...
...Francisco and takes a job in a doctor's office. Her co-workers -a working-class white and a ghetto black-initially mistrust her Eastern accent and sense of style. But Harry Argent, a blunt, flamboyant movie producer, is intermittently attracted to Eliza for what she is: "A sort of zaftig Jane Fonda," who needs not only a vocation but also...
...suffered a mild concussion. After that incident, O'Brien formed a committee to examine proposals for reducing the violence in pro basketball. Among the possible rule changes: penalties, similar to those in hockey, that remove a player for specified times; the use of a third referee to help sort out infractions that occur in the confined area under the basket, where elbows fly and tempers flare. The people who usually lurk beneath the hoop are heavyweights; most N.B.A. centers tower near the 7 ft. mark, and power forwards average more than...
...sets all the old agents' bells aringing. There are entertaining possibilities in this improbable story. At least it avoids being paranoid, not only about the KGB but also, more remarkably, about the CIA, a more recently fashionable whipping boy. But Director Siegel, who is usually good at this sort of thing, doesn't generate much pace or suspense. There is nothing very interesting about the major characters either, a condition that leads Bronson to increase -if that's possible- his normal stolidity, while Remick succumbs to an attack of perkiness. Instead of winding tighter and tighter...