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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assume the directorship, Webster must first be confirmed by the Senate, but there appears to be little doubt about that. Scarcely a negative word was uttered about Webster after his nomination, and the only possible problem might be his membership in St. Louis' Veiled Prophet Society and the Noonday Club, two exclusive groups that have no black members. Bell noted that he had studied Webster's court decisions and found him to be a "moderate person" who "reasons well...
...going to be with the former Vice President, so he was included. Lady Bird Johnson was attending the service, so she too was invited. She asked to bring her daughter and son-in-law, Charles Robb, the new Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. With such an expected assemblage, Baker sent word to the White House that President Carter was welcome. He and Rosalynn accepted...
...There had been forebodings for several days that the peace initiative was running into serious trouble. In two interviews on the eve of the Foreign Ministers' conference, Sadat had predicted that there was "absolutely no hope" of reaching an agreement. When the two sides began quibbling over how to word the Palestinian issue on the agenda, Vance briefly delayed his trip to Jerusalem as a signal to the Israelis and the Egyptians that they had to work harder on a compromise. The agenda problem was settled when the Israelis agreed to define the subject, as the U.S. had suggested...
...minority Christian Democratic Cabinet afloat. Three parties, led by the Communists, then demanded formation of a multiparty emergency government. The tiny (four seats) Radical Party, which specializes in goading both the Christian Democrats and the Communists, subsequently called for a parliamentary debate on the government. The Communists passed the word that if Andreotti did not resign first, they would introduce a motion of noconfidence...
...always earned money as a writer; it was like waiting tables," Crichton added, "I could write a fifty thousand word thriller in a week, ten thousand words...