Word: whether
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixons never did reimburse the Government for these nonsecurity improvements. Whether they should, now that the estate is being sold, is under study by Washington. Peter Hickman, a spokesman for the General Services Administration, said that "if anything there is Government property, it remains Government property." By that, Hickman meant that the Government would remove what it could, including security equipment that might be used to protect Nixon at his new residence...
...philosopher-statesman, blessed with an impressive intellect and an acerbic wit-not to mention a sensuous young wife. But last week Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 59, who had served three times as Canada's chief executive, was narrowly defeated in an election that he had suggested would decide whether his nation would remain one country or risk division into English-and French-speaking enclaves...
...real question now is not whether Levesque will lose the referendum but when. The Premier, who made a campaign promise that the referendum would take place some time during his first term, has repeatedly delayed the vote; it will probably not be taken before next spring...
Even fellow Tories were not above tossing off a quip: "When he comes into a room," joked former Party President Dalton Camp, "Conservatives can't make up their minds whether to stand up or send him out for coffee." Rising will now certainly be in order...
...Secretary of State Cyrus Vance participating, talks between Israeli and Egyptian negotiators on autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza began in the desert town of Beersheba, in Israel's Negev area. The opening discussions were slightly clouded by a last-minute dispute between Egypt and Israel over whether the two nations would open their borders immediately, as Israeli Premier Menachem Begin says Sadat promised earlier this spring, or at the end of nine months, as called for by the treaty. Nonetheless, Sadat and Begin were scheduled to open an air corridor between the two countries by flying...