Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Scenes of the pyramids, the Sphinx and the desert sands take turns with the blues of the sky and river, the green palms and the multi-colored chaos of the crowded street bazaars. The film captures well the contrast between the eternal mysterious Egyptian land, and the seemy, passionate turmoil of the cruisers, who float majestically down the Nile while plotting their little intrigues. Director of photography Jack Cardiff also filmed "Caesar and Cleopatra" and he really knows the turf...
...former secretary of state warned that the reduction in the U.S. arms program will have a significant effect in the 1980s when, he said, most of the world will be in turmoil...
Thus did a single 4,600-member local bring two-thirds of the nation's rail operations to a halt. And the disturbing fact remains that, unless the Administration can smooth over the bitter differences between B.R.A.C. and N&W, a replay of last week's turmoil on the rails remains a possibility...
...most challenging in TIME'S history. Three times in four weeks our cover story was changed in the final hours of the weekend to capture late-breaking events: the surprisingly swift election of Pope John Paul I on a Roman Saturday evening, the turmoil in Iran and Carter's Middle East breakthrough. Last week the cover illustration remained the same, but the cover story was entirely rewritten beginning late Sunday night and into Monday's dawn, a time when that issue would normally reach the first newsstands. Before the extraordinary telecast from the East Room was over...
Despite all this turmoil in the Arab world, one of the two Camp David agreements, the "framework" setting forth a timetable for a peace settlement between Israel and Egypt, was proceeding on schedule. The loose end, recognized but unresolved at Camp David because Begin said he did not want to be the one to "sell out the settlers," is the question of whether the Israelis will dismantle their 17 settlements in the Sinai, as demanded by Egypt. Begin cautiously left that for the Knesset to decide...