Word: backe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year, and he reacted angrily to being on the sidelines this time. Even if he had not resigned, Dayan would not have attended last week's meeting in London between Burg, Egyptian Premier Mustafa Khalil and U.S. Negotiator Robert Strauss, who is eager to get the autonomy talks back on track. At week's end Strauss reported that there had been some progress in the negotiations. The three parties agreed that elections in the West Bank and Gaza need not be carried out under international supervision, but instead would be run by Palestinian and Israeli officials...
...giving a lot, by withdrawing the military administration, even though we get nothing in return. We would pull out our military forces, unless of course the P.L.O. took over and what we had planned as a peaceful region suddenly turned into a base for terrorism. Then, we would come back with a stronger force...
...West European attitude toward the Soviets is believed to have hardened in the past two years. ''So far the Europeans have reacted pretty staunchly,'' said one senior U.S. specialist. Added a Defense Department official: ''With the scars of the neutron bomb on our back and theirs, they're determined not to let it happen again...
...padded belt was wrapped around his waist to protect his kidneys. An assistant painted a 2-in.-wide red stripe across the prisoner's buttocks to define the target zone; then the two floggers, alternating strokes, began to whack his rump. After each blow, the whipper would dance back a few steps; turning with acrobatic grace, he would twirl his cane like a drum major's baton and rush forward to strike the next blow. The victim's body writhed in agony with each fall of the cane. He cried out: "Allah Akbar!" (God is great). After...
...right to decide who should write the opinion of the court and provide the reasoning behind the decision. If he is in the minority, the most senior member of the majority assigns the task. According to former Supreme Court law clerks, Burger has, at times, held back or switched his vote to keep control of the opinion assignment, a practice the clerks call "phony voting." Burger regularly dismisses such assertions as fables. In fact, his colleagues generally believe that either the Chiefs lapses into indecision are just that, indecision, or he misunderstands or forgets what the consensus of the majority...