Word: abstain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President had three reservations. First, he directed Vance to tell McHenry to abstain unless the council deleted an offensive paragraph calling on Israel to guarantee religious freedom in Jerusalem-falsely implying that Israel was not now doing so. Second, Carter said that the U.S. could accept the most controversial paragraph, demanding the dismantling of all Israeli settlements, but only if McHenry expressed U.S. reservations about the wording after the vote. To many diplomats, that seemed an odd, unprofessional way of trying to soften a U.S. stand...