Word: ams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ball, however, confesses that he is "pessimistic about whether we'll have the will to address this central [Palestinian] problem, particularly with an election year coming." Still, concludes Tucker, if the U.S. "follows through on the commitments implied in the treaty, then I am hopeful that it will work...
On the P.L.O.'s conditions for peace. I have declared many times that without the Palestinian rights, without their rights to return to their homelands, without their rights for self-determination, without their rights to establish an independent state, there is no peace, no stability, no security, no settlement...
The tough-talking camp commandant, Wang Xing, said that the 243 prisoners (ten of whom were women) initially were obsessed by fears that they would be executed. But after a month of "studying" Chinese-supplied materials, the prisoners now realized that China had "exercised leniency and decency towards prisoners of...
Now to use a Joan Didion phrase, in groups I am usually "neurotically inarticulate." The compliment was undeserved and I was embarassed at what I sensed was a condescending attitude. Any suspicions I might have had were swiftly confirmed a few minutes later. Picking up again her main themes of...
Another Third World friend of mine tells me that whenever he is singled out like this he feels he probably "deserved" it. I don't agree. I don't believe that it's my due to be made an example of in such an unnecessary and insensitive fashion, to be...