Word: affaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week's Soviet troop controversy raised echoes of the Cuban missile crisis, but that was a far different affair...
Obscure fact often mixes with popular fancy, fuzzing up the truth and perpetuating legend. The old story of Thomas Jefferson's rumored love affair with a slave is opened for fresh examination in a new novel, Sally Hemings, by Barbara Chase-Riboud. The late Agatha Christie's brief, unexplained disappearance during her first marriage inspired a fictional explanation in the book and movie Agatha, which intensified speculation about the case and could stretch it out for years to come...
...this or something about how much Betty enjoyed choosing the drapes for the East Room. Ford includes none of the inside dope that makes The Best and the Brightest enjoyable reading, nothing about the machinations and power struggles inside the government, or even Betty's boozing, or Jack's affair with Bianca Jagger. The whole book could've been written out of the New York Times. And no real insights into Ford himself, Ford the Man, except for the refrain "I was damn mad" and stories like this...
...special prosecutor may have to probe the Jordan affair...
...Egyptian leaders. He had already faced a gathering crisis over Israeli concern that the U.S. was reaching out to try to bring the P.L.O. into the Middle East peace process, a prospect that is anathema to Jerusalem. Said Strauss on the plane to the Middle East: "The Young affair ... reinforces the unfounded suspicions that the U.S. is dealing in the dark with the P.L.O...