Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filled with incidents ranging from absurd to chilling. Five years ago, the I.R.A. was plagued by corruption and laxity, McMullen said. Once in 1974 he could not assemble a squad to bomb a British barracks in Northern Ireland because "Sean had to go to Mass and Seamus had to visit his mother and Kevin had to milk the cows. It sounded like one of those Irish jokes...
...Menachem Begin was preoccupied with bilateral issues that had arisen since the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty last March. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was eager for progress toward a wider peace in the Middle East. After three hours of private talks during Sadat's 48-hour visit, Begin had achieved his objectives. But Sadat's hope of new movement toward solving the Palestinian problem, which he termed "the heart and core of the entire conflict," was unfulfilled...
...Sinai, at least until the U.S. can put together a multinational peace-keeping force; and Israel's willingness to return to Egypt ahead of schedule the monastery of St. Catherine at the foot of Mount Sinai, thereby enabling Sadat to commemorate the second anniversary of his visit to Jerusalem with a Hollywood-style extravaganza...
...past 18 months when they became the target of anti-Chinese prejudice - exacerbated by heightened hostility between Hanoi and Peking. Little was known of their fate until last week when Peking, hoping for aid from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, allowed a group of U.S. journalists to visit the refugee resettlement areas in southern China. Among the first Americans to be granted entry was TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein. His report...
...drive home these facts, ARCO has adapted a DOE system for a traveling exhibit that will visit 125 cities over the next 14 months and provide direct hands-on teaching of how to save gas. The visitor climbs into a V-8 Chevrolet Malibu that is mounted on a special platform. Then, following audiotaped instructions and other information that is flashed at him, he "drives" the stationary car in typical fashion over a simulated three-mile course. A measuring device reveals how much gas he used. Next, he takes the car over the course a second time, following instructions that...