Word: subs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commence talks after that, either simultaneously or after the Egyptian talks con cluded (estimated deadline: in about six months). Since both sides agree that the U.S. is still the essential mediator, and since the Arabs still resist face-to-face meetings with Israel, American negotiators also propose talks among sub-ministers - with Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco representing the U.S. - until decisions are near enough for foreign ministers to return to the dis cussion. Kissinger also prefers three-way negotiations in Washington. If they return to Geneva, he apparently fears, Soviet pressure there on behalf of the Palestinians...
...from Boston to an Indian settlement 50 miles south of the Labrador border. Two months earlier, the man flying the plane had told me about towns along the north shore of the Gulf, isolated fishing villages unconnected by roads of any sort, abandoned in the wilds of the Canadian sub-Arctic. And he told me about a program that he had started in 1961 through which people spent summers in these towns, teaching vital skills that no one up there knew how to teach. Like swimming. Every year, several fishermen die when they fall overboard five feet from land...
...Quebec--is on its way. So now on "the white side" of St. Augustine, they've begun to prepare for its arrival. Beer bottles crack and shatter on the rocks by the landing. Water-proofed families of 14 pile into the small dory-like boats that, in the fierce sub-Arctic winter, carry fishermen far out into the Gulf in search of seal...
...harshness of the sub-Artic climate, the long winters and loneliness of vast expanses of wasteland have traditionally inspired in inhabitants a fear of the supernatural. Yet old superstitions seem to have died out on the whole and have been replaced by Roman Catholicism. Twice a year, the Belgian Roman Catholic priest from La Romaine spends a week in the tiny church which the St. Augustine Indians built for themselves under his supervision. To make up for lost time, he performs continuous masses, weddings and baptisms--all in Algonquian, the language spoken by the tribes of the sub-Arctic cultural...
...triumph was truly a team effort as each member of the Harvard team had to play nearly the entire game without a breather, using only one sub to spot the regulars...