Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Depending on how Mondale fares, Washington hopes to arrange a July meeting in Europe, probably in London, between Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and his Egyptian counterpart, Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel. Also attending: U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Following that, Vance might soon find himself flying to the Middle East for the fifth time since he took office 17 months...
Answering such calls is all in a day's work for the 90 volunteers at the San Francisco Sex Information hot line, a free service established with foundation funds five years ago. Like its counterpart in New York City, in operation since 1971, San Francisco's sex hot line is dedicated to reassuring the sexually anxious, debunking myths and otherwise disseminating, so to speak, accurate information. "Sex is the only thing in life we're expected to do right the first time," says San Francisco Board Member Dossie Easton. "If we don't, there...
...basic reason for the Navy's current crisis over new ships is that the ships have grown incredibly complex and their costs have soared. A Spruance-class destroyer costs $134.2 million; its World War II destroyer counterpart was only $5 million. The price tag on attack submarines has risen from $3.9 million in 1946 to $284 million...
Elleinstein's jabs were sharpest against Marchais. Instead of following a soak-the-rich line, he argued, the Communist chief should have done as his Italian counterpart, Enrico Berlinguer, is now doing, extending the party's embrace to include the middle class. Said Elleinstein: "Workers sometimes own their apartments, even a place in the country. They are not always at ease with the party's working class language...
...self-made millionaire lawyer-businessman, Strauss, 59, mixes Machiavellian tactics with mirth, backslapping with cool competence. As chief U.S. trade negotiator, a job he will retain, he demonstrated his unusual bargaining techniques in Tokyo earlier this year when he grabbed his Japanese counterpart, Nobuhiko Ushiba, in a Texas bear hug and bellowed, "Brother Ushiba, you're crazy as hell...