Word: spares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less than an hour he phoned her and said he would not run. It was a decision, he stressed, that he had had to reach for himself. Even though it might mean the end of all his hopes, he would have his self-respect. And he would spare them both the familiar abuse-that he was Lyndon Johnson's puppet, that he was not tough enough, that people were tired of him-that would surely be heaped on him the minute he announced. As he would say later: "One thing I don't need at this stage...
Christian love, Eastern serenity, contemplation--they're all right, but too often you have to squeeze them into your spare time, maybe as an after thought. Perhaps religion affords an out when you're down and confused, but it hardly rates as opium for the masses anymore, if it ever...
Boston's second annual Book Affair for small publishers is taking place at Harvard this year, and spare space may be the most non-controversial explanation for this location. The event is commercial but no one involved seems to expect a lot of sales, just attention and piquant exchange...
...China a long-awaited chance to develop its own special relationship with Egypt. Within days after Sadat's action, Peking announced that it would give Sadat 30 new engines for Egypt's aging Soviet-built MIGS-a direct slap at the Soviets, who had refused to supply spare parts for the planes and had forbidden India...
Despite the glowing communiqués, China is not in a position to give Egypt the kind of sophisticated military hardware it needs to counter Israel's U.S.-supplied forces. The Chinese used to produce MIG-17s and can help Egypt with spare parts for those near-obsolete planes. They also have a modified version of the MIG-21, but they are equipped with engines that are not adaptable to Egypt's Soviet-built MIG-21s. Admits one observer: "The Chinese may be able to supply a nut or a bolt here and there, but nothing big enough...