Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...should agree on a lower ceiling price. In fact it took four hours of extra bargaining for Yamani to persuade Iran Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar, whose country produces about one-tenth as much petroleum as Saudi Arabia, to change a single key word in the conference's final communiqu...
Since then a task force of U.S. Government experts has continued its detective work. There may never be a final verdict. Unlike the SALT agreements, which can be verified by spy satellites and other means, the Biological Weapons Convention is almost impossible to police. Moreover, the treaty is vague about what constitutes stockpiling. But TIME has learned that a draft of the task force's report, classified top secret, diagnoses the Sverdlovsk syndrome as almost certainly pulmonary rather than intestinal anthrax. No matter how the incident is resolved, the Soviets seem to have been caught engaging in some kind...
Each morning at 11, Afanasyev and his 30 deputy and department editors meet to make final changes in that day's edition and to lay out most of the following day's paper. All decisions are made with the party in mind. A full member of the party Central Committee, Afanasyev has direct access to top government leaders, including Leonid Brezhnev. The paper's two dozen departments (divided by geographical area and subject matter) are in close contact with the party's propaganda department and with government bureaus. Yet Afanasyev denies that everything in the paper...
Bogarde's hero, Rooke, ages and deepens during the course of a year, and a final irony is that he is so drawn in the end by his military occupation that he considers becoming a professional warrior. The general who dissuades him is one of a dozen or more of Bogarde's characters who are too sharply drawn to be easily forgotten. The writer is a gifted observer, and it will be interesting to see now whether he turns his talents to a novel about acting. - John Skow
Johann Heinrich Karl Thieme of Aldenburg, Germany, dug a record 23,311 graves during a 50-year career as a sexton. Though he entered his own final resting place in 1826, he lives on-if nowhere else-in the Guinness Book of World Records...