Word: ameral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majority of Palestinians are neither politicized nor violent but want merely to be left alone to live in peace. Yet most West Bank Arab leaders would probably argue that political grievances are what bind the Palestinians together. "What the Israelis want for themselves, we want for ourselves," says Tawfik Amer, 63, a former Jordanian diplomat. "I do not deny the Israelis their state or their way of life, and they cannot deny me the same." Indeed, there is little doubt that the younger generation of Palestinians has become increasingly radicalized, particularly the university graduates for whom there are few jobs...
...matter only: the rather slippery and rarely mentioned principle of the rights of the individual. Both countries have violated that principle too often in the past, but the principle prevails. Add the rights of property, free speech, freedom of religion, and a few other advantages that Britain and Amer ica have developed over the years, and you have the central reasons that if these two nations continue to blunder through history, at least they will do so together...
...pointed out that the consumer price index rose in September at a 12.7% annual rate and declared that Carter's record on inflation and unemployment "is a failure on a scale so vast, in dimensions so broad, with effects so devastating, that it is virtually without parallel in Amer ican history...
What actually transpired was a quick, nicely-controlled Lion drive down the right wing, followed by a Steve Pratten cross to 6-ft. 4-in. freshman, Amer Aly, who simply out-towered Crimson midfielder Leo Lanzillo to head the ball past Erulcar for the second bit of Columbian gold...
...nationhood and seething with hatred for the Soviet invaders, the shuravi. Almost as soon as we boarded our first bus, at the border, we were asked a question that would be repeated everywhere we went: "What is your country?" Our reply invariably drew smiles and approving nods. "Ah, Amer-eeka. Good," they said...