Word: sundown
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...only on the final Saturday that the possibility of a breakthrough began to take shape. While Begin observed the Sabbath, Carter met with Sadat for 2½ hours. Once sundown came, Carter and Begin met for 4½ hours. By that time their negotiators had narrowed success or failure for the summit to just two issues: the Palestinians and the Israeli Sinai settlements...
...this gathering of a Muslim, Jew and Christian, is that their Sabbaths occur on different days?Friday, Saturday and Sunday respectively. This cuts considerably into negotiating time. While Carter will be ready to resume his diplomatic labors after Sunday-morning church services. Begin will not participate in talks from sundown Friday through sundown Saturday. It is uncertain how Sadat will observe his Sabbath, but White House officials hope he does not want to go into Washington to pray at the Islamic Center Mosque near the Egyptian embassy. Admitted an Administration official: "We want everybody to stay up there...
...Muriel, in a pink dress and fur jacket, stood in the cold greeting guests, including Coretta King, whom she embraced. While the honor guard lifted the casket and moved it to a waiting hearse, she wiped away some tears, then smiled and waved to friends in the crowd. At sundown Humphrey was buried in Minneapolis' Lakewood Cemetery as television spotlights eerily illuminated his final resting place. A 19-gun salute rang through the frigid air, a bugler played taps, cameras clicked...
...first three of 25 American F-15 Eagle fighters that Israel has on order (U.S. officials later indicated that the day and timing had been set by Rabin). The arrangements outraged leaders of Israel's religious parties, since the ceremony ran so close to the Sabbath sundown that it violated the spirit of the approaching holy day. Only 20% of Israeli Jews are strictly observant, but the religious parties that represent them are a potent factor in the nation's politics. The largest of the groups, the National Religious Party, has been included in almost every Labor government...
...Royal "We" called on The Clock Maker (an unbelievably pretentious bore) to get out of town before sundown a month ago. Yet the sun keeps setting on this tale of a clock tinkerer whose son turns terrorist. Phillipe Noiret is still quivering with emotion for two hours, and anything more has failed to materialize. Director Taverneir is content to focus on Noiret's face forever--who need dialogue, plot, or motivations? Apparently not Taverneir. Noiret has an occasional temper tantrum, which might in some circles pass for character development. We, however, are still not buying...