Word: visiters
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...Navy has been the nation's favorite means of flexing its muscles. A 1976 survey by the Brookings Institution found that in the 215 cases since World War II in which military force was used for political goals, the Navy was deployed 177 times. A visit by the battleship Missouri to Istanbul in 1946 countered mounting Soviet pressures on Turkey, for example, while in 1958 U.S. amphibious activity off Lebanon's coast bolstered a friendly government in Beirut. More recently, the rescue of the U.S. freighter Mayaguez in 1975 after its capture by Cambodian Communists demonstrated America's continuing interest...
Carter seemed somewhat puzzled by the Israelis' continued stance. Talking to a group of editors and broadcasters last week, the President noted that during Begin's March visit to the White House, the Israeli leader "never mentioned to me one time any concern he might have about the sale of weapons...
...debate over the plane sales continued, the week's peace negotiations−highlighted by Dayan's trip to Washington, to be followed by Begin's visit this week−resumed but made little headway. After nearly six hours of talks with Vance and 90 minutes with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Dayan left the Administration with scant hope of a break in the diplomatic stalemate. At issue in the talks were the interpretation of an old document, U.N. Resolution 242, and the formulation of a new one, a declaration of principles to govern a comprehensive Middle East...
Dayan's visit did not, however, narrow the U.S.-Israeli disagreement over the wording of the declaration of principles. In the end, Israel may accept some version of the phrase recognizing the Palestinians' "right to participation in the determination of their own future," but it still rejects such phrases as "Palestinian problem in all its aspects" or "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people" on the ground that such words imply a Palestinian state on the West Bank−a concept that is anathema to Jerusalem. All in all, the two sides remained uncomfortably far apart...
...meeting a group of parents whose children she was preparing for First Communion when she learned of the kidnaping. Since then, she has left her home only three times−to attend the funeral for her husband's police escort, to attend Mass on Easter Sunday, and to visit the Vatican offices of Caritas, the Catholic relief agency that volunteered to act as an intermediary. The rest of the time she has remained in seclusion in the modest yellow brick apartment building in northern Rome where the family has lived for 13 years...