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Stunning as the Camp David results were, from the Arab view the summit may still be Sadat's last hurrah. Once again Sadat has demonstrated remarkable courage and statesmanship in promoting the cause of peace, but if his name was mud in much of the Arab world before Sunday night, it is something even
...government only four days after the proclamation of the Chinese People's Republic in 1949, Mao Tse-tung ignored the gesture. In subsequent years, the Chinese press regularly attacked Titoist "revisionism." In one famous outburst, the Peking People's Daily called Tito "a dwarf kneeling in the mud and trying with all his might to spit at a giant standing on a lofty mountain...
...farm workers should be unionized or why gas companies should not be allowed to construct a liquefied natural gas terminal on sacred Indian land along the California coast. Instead of sitting around the campfire singing "It's a Treat to Beat Your Feet on the Mississippi Mud," they learn union songs. Even traditional camp activities-sports, crafts, horseback riding-are pursued with a radical ideology in mind. "Swimming cannot be separated from the larger issues of society-the role of youth and the idea of competition," harrumphs Hayden. Chimes in Fonda, recalling the "authoritarian" camps of her youth...
There was no gusher. Instead, pressure gauges simply showed that something-oil or gas-was trying to come up. Hours later, a mixture of mud, water and natural gas vented from the wellhead in a cloud that when ignited whooshed into a 30-ft. flare visible 20 miles away. A second test at 13,000 ft. yielded indications...
...noses along just above the floor of the bay, a flat, sandy-brown miniature moonscape unrolling beneath the 3-in.-thick, 16-in.-in-diameter window in the bow. Cynically one expects to find old shoes and bottles. But there is nothing except large-grained sand and mud, now and then a stick or stone, crisscrossed by all sorts of hermit and spider crabs that slink out of sight. Only the bigger green crabs show fight. One stands on its hind legs and waves its pincers in the air as the sub passes, the very picture of futile rage...