Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beyond these commemorations, the birthday is largely a nonevent. Outside the U.S., hardly anyone is taking note of it, except in some newspaper features here and there and a few broadcasts. The most ambitious: Italian state TV's special that its producers hope will include conversations with the cosmonauts aboard the Soviet Salyut 6 space station and the revelers in Washington, via links set up by the network's correspondents in Moscow and the U.S. capital...
Indeed, NASA is busily renting out payload space. For $10,000 its salespeople are offering a "Getaway Special," a package for research experiments involving less than 200 Ibs. and measuring under 5 cu. ft. Two early takers: Film Makers Steven Spielberg and Michael Phillips (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) for a project that they are still keeping secret. Eventually the shuttle may be used for far bolder enterprises: assembling solar power satellites that can collect the sun's rays and beam that concentrated energy down to earth; erecting giant antennas that could revolutionize global communications; and putting together...
Nowhere are those sensitivities more acute at present than in Israel. Once again, the "special relationship" between Washington and Jerusalem is in some trouble. The U.S. has strongly deplored Israeli air and artillery attacks against Palestinian guerrilla positions in Lebanon, not only because of the loss of civilian ives, but also for fear that the raids could ead to war with Syria. Last week an Israeli army force crossed into Lebanon for the first time since May, killing two guerrillas. The U.S. regards Jewish settlements in the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as illegal...
...extent that made it internationally acceptable. Specifically, that would include loosening the white grip on power and increased promotion for blacks in the armed forces and civil service, plus the departure of Ian Smith from the political arena. Thatcher's decision was based on a report by her special envoy to Africa, Lord Harlech, that Britain's recognition of Zimbabwe Rhodesia under the present circumstances would not be supported by a single African country-not even South Africa. In insisting on constitutional reform as a prerequisite to recognition, Thatcher was moving closer to the views of the Carter...
Says one of them, PepsiCo Chairman Donald Kendall: "Connally's greatest strength is in the Big Business community." Thomas Ellick, a corporate vice president of California's Fluor Corp., who was a special assistant to Governor Ronald Reagan in 1968-71, finds that "I'm just amazed at the breadth of the people who are coming out of the woodwork for John Connally. If anyone is looking for a replacement for John Wayne as the personification of America, this...