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This is one conclusion that can be drawn from a review of the secret diplomacy that took place immediately before Sadat's visit. From its birth in 1948, Israel had always maintained secret contacts with its Arab enemies, largely through Mossad, the intelligence service that operated as a sort of underground diplomatic corps for the Jewish state. TIME has learned that these contacts between Israel and a number of Arab states, notably Morocco, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, bolstered Sadat's confidence and set the stage for his Peace Initiative. The following narrative is based on TIME...
After the police discovered the burglary, the store's owner, Harry Levinson, did little to help their investigation. Griped a detective on the case: "He was the most uncooperative victim I've ever seen." But Levinson happened to be acquainted with a prominent figure in a different sort of enforcement business, Big Tuna. Levinson complained, according to a police informant, about his misfortune. For reasons of his own, Big Tuna sympathized. An order soon went out from River Forest: return the swag. The gang reluctantly obeyed, handing over the loot to Accardo who, police and FBI officials believe, kept...
...Congress on an energy bill, persistent rumors that petroleum-exporting nations might be planning to stop pricing their oil in dollars and switch to a basket of stronger currencies. To that litany, businessmen, bankers and money traders added a couple of new elements: dismay at the lack of any sort of dollar-strengthening scheme to emerge from the economic summit in Bonn of the previous week, and a feeling that European leaders are making unexpected progress on setting up a unified Common Market currency that could, in effect, reduce the dollar's importance in international trading and depress its value...
...each show, Springsteen will drop to one knee in front of the mike and yell with the sort of mock melodrama that cloaks an almost literal truth, "I'm just a prisoner . . . of rock 'n' roll!" In the audience, his fellow lifers laugh and cheer, delirious inmates in the same cell. Of all those prisoners, though, only the Boss holds...
Whatever his accomplishments as a gifted literary editor, Maxwell Perkins made life hard for would-be biographers. He was a taciturn and thoroughly decent man who absolutely refused to act out the sort of emotional highs and lows that drive a narrative along. By choice, he did exactly the same thing every working day for 32 years: he sat in the New York City offices of Charles Scribner's Sons and nurtured the talents of others. Because three of those were F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, all of whom put their private lives in open books...