Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LeBaron, an imposing (6ft. 4-in.), darkly handsome man, seems almost totally obsessed by his religion. Rather than accept his brother Joel's view of a charitable, merciful Christ, Ervil bases his belief on a preference for the wrathful God of the Old Testament. Says Polygamist Harold Blackmore of Utah: "He's always preaching this blood and thunder stuff-you know, if people don't live the civil law [of Ervil's God], cut their heads off. He is very pugnacious, but is also a smooth-tongued type." Residents of the Mexican villages where LeBaron...
...insisted that "everything" was negotiable in the Middle East. Then, as soon as he got back to Jerusalem, he confounded the Carter Administration by legalizing three previously unauthorized Israeli settlements that had been built on the West Bank. More than that, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan announced that Israel would accept no foreign rule-meaning even Jordanian-on the West Bank. What, everyone wondered, might the unpredictable Begin do next...
...Arafat resolution, which is still being drafted in Beirut, is intended to exploit President Carter's call for a Palestinian homeland last March in Clinton, Mass. At that time, Carter also demanded that the Palestinians accept, without amendment, the celebrated U.N. Resolution 242 of 1967, which sought to end Middle East hostilities by trading a return to prewar borders for Israel's right to exist within defensible boundaries. The Arafat resolution will meet Carter's injunction by explicitly accepting 242, but it will also include his very words on the Palestinian homeland. Says a P.L.O. spokesman...
...busily polishing up a moderate political image. It has come out against another Arab oil embargo as a way of achieving Palestinian goals; it is also busy purging "undesirables"-meaning Palestinians who profited from looting or black-marketeering during the Lebanese civil war-from its ranks. Rejectionists who cannot accept the idea of Israeli statehood are also free to leave for Libya to work for Muammar Gaddafi, the last remaining Arab leader who still holds the Israel-into-the-sea view. In fact, they have nowhere else to turn...
...amid the diplomatic moderation, the Palestinians intend to keep pressure on Israel. The P.L.O. continues to train young fighters; Arafat at a recent graduation ceremony urged them to raise the red, black, white and green Palestinian flag in Jerusalem itself, an idea which Israel is scarcely likely to accept. The P.L.O. last week quickly took credit for a bus bombing in the Israeli town of Afula, in which eight people were hurt-the 50th such incident this year...