Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lunch was more social than businesslike. The three leaders and their wives dined modestly in the family quarters. Outside, the crowd was gathering and the sounds filtered up through the tall windows. As so often happens in such relaxed circumstances, the three men began to talk history. The last time a treaty between the people of Israel and of Egypt had been signed, Begin related, was 3,000 years ago. King Solomon had made an agreement with a Pharaoh. "I'll bet no one remembers the mediator," said Jimmy Carter...
When the treaty-signing ceremony was over Monday after noon, the people lingered to talk and to remember, clinging to the special feeling of the day as long as possible. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who had helped to start the peace process with his arduous diplomacy after the 1973 war, found himself thinking that the nations had to move ahead. "It is a new world now," he said after the signing. "Whatever the problems, they are in a different context. It is an occasion for great hope...
...just long enough to read the message. Then he smiled wanly, shook his head and waved the aide away with the back of his hand. The note informed Gaddafi that live TV coverage of the White House signing ceremony was beginning in the next room. Gaddafi clearly preferred to talk about the treaty rather than join his staff around the TV. The main points he made to TIME's diplomatic correspondent Strobe Talbott...
...number of Department of Energy officials say that Carter's interest in gasohol is largely "symbolic," that he is talking it up mainly to provide some good news amid the Administration's talk of decontrolling crude oil and letting gas prices rise. Yet the presidential push will surely add to gasohol's growing popularity in Washington. Prodded by promoters, Congress last fall passed a law exempting the fuel from the 4?-per-gal. federal tax on gasoline. In January, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would permit service stations to sell gasohol instead of unleaded...
...considered myself too old for this kind of disillusionment. As a freshman at my over-whelmingly white, exclusive private school, I took a course in a dry subject with the wittiest and most amusing teacher there. Like everyone else, I secretly adored him and desperately wanted to talk to him after class. Near term's end I finally got up the courage to approach him with a question. Within minutes he had broached the subject of sickle cell anemia. At fourteeen, I was completely paralyzed with humiliation. For a split-second I wanted not to be black. I wanted...