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...some, the high point was Jimmy Carter's unexpected thank you to Gerald Ford "for all he has done to heal our land." For others, it was Carter's unprecedented stroll down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House after he was sworn in. But for many, the most memorable-and symbolic-moment came when a black choir sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic in honor of a Southern President...
Since then, to Washington's dismay, the West German government has caused confusion in Western ranks by hinting that it is interested in the revival of a compromise plan that U.S. Negotiator Paul Nitze and his Soviet counterpart Yuli Kvitsinsky worked out during a stroll in the Jura Mountains above Geneva last summer. The walk-in-the-woods proposal, as it came to be called, was disavowed by Washington and Moscow. But West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher seemed to resurrect it last month when he told a reporter during a visit to Bulgaria that "the closer...
Although there has been controversy about what took place during and after the stroll in the woods, the basic provisions of the unofficial proposal are now well known. The U.S. would forgo the deployment of all 108 Pershing IIs in West Germany and install a total of only 300 cruise missiles, instead of 464, in Western Europe. The Soviets, in exchange, would reduce the number of SS-20 missile launchers aimed at Western Europe from 250 to 75. This would give them 225 warheads, creating a rough parity in the number of intermediate-range weapons on each side. In addition...
...redoubled efforts, but were skeptical that the pirates could ever be foiled entirely. "If they say they can stop hijackings," said Delta's Ewing, "let's hope they can. We're taking a wait-and-see attitude." Indeed, a preboarding body search and stroll through a metal detector failed to reveal Hijacker Cruz's knife. Said Jim Ashlock, spokesman for Eastern Air Lines, whose jets have been involved in three of the last eight Havana landings: "If we had better techniques for preventing hijackings, we'd be using them...
...recommendations and indignant dismissals in unprecedented profusion; if they could talk, there would be an argument. The best hotel in Paris? The finest painting in the Prado? The tastiest little trattoria in Trastevere? Guidebooks, those quirky, opinionated and impassioned travelers' aids tout the virtues of everything from a stroll down the Strand to a tour of the catacombs. A sampling of the more comprehensive...