Word: lettering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meetings were announced, a senior White House official declared: "We have now come to a point at which both the Egyptians and the Israelis confront the need to make some tough decisions." Despite that evenhanded appraisal, the White House feels that Sadat has conformed to the spirit and the letter of the Camp David agreements far more than have the Israelis. Carter believes that Begin will have to make the major concessions for further accords. In turn, the Israeli leader is fully prepared to resist any attempt by Carter to pressure him into modifying his stands. Said a Begin aide...
Both Begin and Sadat welcomed the meeting, which the Egyptian had suggested to the President in a letter three weeks ago. Nine rounds between Israeli and Egyptian negotiators, in addition to five face-to-face encounters between Begin and Sadat, have had only mixed results. Administration officials emphasize that some 20 issues involving the jurisdiction of the Palestinian body to be elected have been agreed upon; the local authority would have full power to tax, for example, and to run its own police force...
...districts, and territories that stretched from Maine to Georgia, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River. Armed with their own quill pens, the 650 census takers of 1790 spent 18 months counting the American people. The total: 3,929,214. President George Washington, however suspected an undercount. In a letter to Gouverneur Morris, then U.S. Commissioner to Great Britain, Washington worried about the "indolence of the mass, and want of activity" by many census takers. Proof of this thesis: Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was in charge of the tally, had to sign his own name to the list...
...only interview he has given to an American publication since his election, Mugabe discussed his plans for the future of his country with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William Me Whirter. The meeting was interrupted just once, when a diplomatic emissary entered the room to deliver a personal letter from President Carter. Excerpts from the interview...
Though Kennedy insists his ploy could easily be duplicated, some industry experts are a bit skeptical about the new oil bar on's gambit. Says Mark Emond, editor of the authoritative oil publication the Lundberg Letter: "It takes a huge credit line; it takes a relationship, or influence, or something." In other words, it is quite easy to cut fuel prices if you have political clout, a large credit line and access to a bankrupt oil refinery. It also helps if your name is Kennedy...