Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone charmed by all those quaint es in "olde" and "shoppe" that adorn so many signs in America's historic "townes"? Evidently there is a citizen of Alexandria, Va., who isn't. The anonymous zealot set forth one night with a brush and a can of brown paint and x-ed out the superfluous es in the Olde Towne Flower Shoppe sign. Elaine's of Olde Town, the Kitchen Shoppe, and the Olde Towne Tennis Shop also soon fell prey. This cultural resistance movement is causing, well, some local unease. "We don't know...
...joint commitment was the major achievement of Vice President Walter Mondale's four-day tour of the Middle East. As Mondale left Alexandria for Washington last week, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat handed him a new six-point peace plan to pass on to Israel. The plan is Egypt's response to a 26-point proposal presented by Israeli Premier Menachem Begin at the Ismailia conference last December. Washington sources optimistically contended that the two plans, although predictably far apart on every major issue, would serve as "a fair basis for negotiations...
...issue in an Alexandria, Va., courtroom last week was whether top CIA officials could hold an ex-spy to his written agreement to let them censor anything that he wrote about his undercover experiences. Testified CIA Director Stansfield Turner: "If he is able to get away with this, it will prove to other people that we have no control." In other words, the agency wanted to chill into silence other potential telltale spooks...
...East is back on the diplomatic stage again. When he visits Jerusalem this week for Israel's 30th anniversary celebrations, Vice President Walter Mondale will talk with Israeli leaders about how to get the stalled peace negotiations moving once more. After that, he plans to fly on to Alexandria for a meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
...talking again. Later on it could pave the way for the U.S. to propose a compromise formula without appearing to be trying to impose a solution. Last week the effort appeared to be working: U.S. Ambassador to Cairo Hermann Eilts was invited to Sadat's vacation villa at Alexandria to hear the outlines of a proposal to return the West Bank to Jordan and Gaza to Egypt...