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...President Anwar Sadat expelled an estimated 17,000 Soviet technical advisers and military personnel in 1972. After the 1973 war, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger effectively shut the Soviets out of all Middle East negotiations. By supplying weapons to the P.L.O., Syria, Iraq, Libya and Algeria, Moscow tried to regain a voice in the region's affairs, but with little success. Ominously, the Soviet Union has shifted its attention to Iran, which has been told it will have Moscow's support in any future fighting with Iraq (see WORLD...
...leave Beirut. Several Arab states, including Egypt, Syria, Jordan and even Saudi Arabia, have expressed some willingness to admit the Fatah leaders, but only Egypt has made an offer. The U.S. believed that any of these states would be sure that the P.L.O. did not regain its former military power...
...jury tampering in 1967, Hoffa had been in the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., with Allen, who was serving a ten-year sentence for bank robbery. Allen claimed that Hoffa had asked him to kill Fitzsimmons because the new Teamsters president would not step aside and let Hoffa regain control of the union after being released from prison. Insisted Allen: "I was supposed to kill Frank Fitzsimmons right here in the Teamsters' parking lot [in Washington...
Xerox was one of the first companies to develop a local network system, Ethernet, which was announced in 1979 after six years of research. The firm has been hurt in recent years by slumping copier sales, but it hopes that Ethernet will help it regain its prominent position in office equipment. Xerox encouraged Digital Equipment Corp. to make computers that can run on its system, and has sold licenses for a nominal $1,000 to some 100 other companies to build compatible equipment. Says John Shoch, deputy general manager of office systems: "We don't sell Ethernet. We sell...
...course, America must be defended. It may regain its prosperity and exercise productive power in the world. Nor will social spending alone cure the nation's ills...