Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Volunteers for a Swap...
Hint of a Swap. What were the Soviets up to? For one thing, they may have been trying to pressure Turkey into returning the father-and-son pair who carried off the first successful hijacking of a Soviet aircraft last month, killing an 18-year-old stewardess in the process. Turkish President Cevdet Sunay, however, declared that the matter would be handled not as a political decision, but by Turkish courts, where it is still pending...
There are rumors that a swap may in fact be in the works. Wolfgang Vogel. the East Berlin lawyer who was instrumental in the exchange of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers for Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel, is active in the case. So is Manhattan Lawyer Maxwell Rabb, secretary to the Cabinet during the Eisenhower Administration who has negotiated the release of seven Americans from East Germany since 1965. If the Soviets are determined to bring about a better climate in Berlin, Moscow may try to pressure the East Germans to free the students. But there is also...
...spelled Ly-kourgos, in the barbarous tradition of contemporary university classics departments), a dim semi-mythological figure, flinging out his arms in V-for-victory signs like General de Gaulle, or to hear members of the Lacedaemonian jet set chatter psychoanalysis, market analysis and Black Panther ideology while they swap wives by the suburban swimming pool...
Essex any opera director might be tempted to swap his Ring cycle for. Bending to one knee in supplication, baring his chest with soldierly bravado, singing with graceful, silvery mastery, Domingo made their touching Act I duet a true meeting of romantic equals...