Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Aboard the C-141, the Paratrooper, jammed among his equipment-laden buddies, drifts into and out of sleep. Twenty minutes from the drop zone, the final commands begin. Then he is out the door and into the clear sky, counting aloud, "One thousand, two thousand, three thousand, four thousand." His chute is snatched open by the rushing air, and he drifts toward the ground...
...final speaker of the evening was Henry Kissinger. He had met earlier in the day with Reagan, who sought to smooth over their differences in an effort to build a bridge to the foreign policy establishment. After the session, Kissinger said: "I felt that the Governor's position, as it was explained to me, was one that I find compatible with my own." In his speech that evening, Kissinger warmly described Reagan as the "trustee of our hopes" for relief from the Carter Administration's "feeble and apologetic" diplomacy. But Kissinger made no mention of the issues on which...
...terms later bandied wildly about the convention hall. A mere 1½ pages of double-spaced typing, it tried to sketch out how Ford would fit into the decisionmaking and paper flow of the White House. One specific point was that Ford would have daily supervisory authority, but not final power of decision, over the National Security Council, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Council of Economic Advisers. Reagan's team turned the paper over to the Ford group with the low-key comment: "Here's some ideas...
...Arab-populated West Bank were "an obstacle to peace." Echoing Begin, Anderson said the settlements were essential to Israel's security and endorsed the annexation of the Arab sections of Jerusalem. The U.S., he said, should even move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as the final step in the peace process...
...issue a stay order that would suspend the Philadelphia decision. At week's end, barely 40 hours before registration was to begin, Justice William J. Brennan Jr. granted the stay from his summer home on Nantucket Island, Mass. As a result, registration will proceed as planned pending a final decision on the case by the full court, possibly by early fall...