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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's push on the Middle East took place against a backdrop of ominous new fighting between Israeli and Palestinian forces in southern Lebanon. This provided an extra note of urgency as the first visitor, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, arrived in Washington after a mysterious side trip for some personal diplomacy of his own. He was followed by his counterpart from the most moderate of Israel's adversaries, Ismail Fahmy of Egypt. This week, when Carter and Vance meet with Jordanian Premier Mudar Badran and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam, the talk may turn tougher. Khaddam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Bazaar Bargaining in Washington | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

When Fred was in his early teens, he was an avid student of radio drama, and became a regular weekly visitor to our studio broadcast sessions of The Shadow, Nick Carter and The Sealed Book. I would give Fred the leftover scripts in exchange for cleaning up the used coffee containers of the cast. Fred and his chums would re-enact these scripts in his home with sound effects, etc. Anyone with such a head start was bound to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 26, 1977 | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...driver is not Mario Andretti or even Walter Mitty. He is a thrill-seeking visitor at Northridge, outside Los Angeles, one of seven sites in California where anyone with a driver's license and a few dollars can safely savor some of the adrenaline-pumping, gut-clutching fever of Grand Prix racing-on a minitrack, in a scaled-down Formula 1 speedster. Le petit Grand Prix is already one of the hottest pastimes in California, the nation's begetter of vogues, and is spreading east. The two businessmen who laid out the first track in Malibu 29 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Le Mans for the Masses | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Late in the week, Sanjay himself was having legal problems. He made his first court appearance and was mobbed by pushing, shoving and shouting young men. The judge granted him bail in one of several cases against him, but Sanjay is expected to be a regular visitor in courts in months ahead. Says one official: "The investigators have more information than they know what to do with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Closer to Indira | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...imprisonment. Last year he was transferred from prison to the hospital in Rome for treatment of terminal intestinal cancer. Since then, his wife, a nurse who had carried on a lengthy correspondence with Kappler before marrying him in a prison wedding in 1972, had become a frequent and familiar visitor. Because of Kappler's deteriorating condition, she had been allowed almost unlimited access to him, often acting as his private nurse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Missing Cancer Patient | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

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