Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shuttling back to Beirut for a third huddle with Arafat, Jackson suffered a relapse and wound up in the American University of Beirut Hospital. Later in the evening Yasser Arafat and his aides turned up for a twelve-minute bedside chat, making it clear that the P.L.O.'s military action against Israel would continue...
...Back in Chicago at week's end, he said he had brought back a P.L.O. communique for President Carter. Earlier, he had shrugged off suggestions that he was an agitator who might jeopardize complex formal negotiations. "If the agitator is that part of the washing machine that shakes out the dirt," he said, "that...
...phoned and awakened the President to tell him of Rabin's preliminary response. I urged him to defer a decision and to call a meeting of his senior advisers for 7:30 in the morning. But Nixon soon called back and said: "I have decided it. Don't ask anybody else. Tell him [Rabin...
...fact sober calculation. We had some 72 hours to bring the war to a conclusion before West Pakistan would be swept into the maelstrom. It would take India that long to shift its forces. We had to give the Soviets a warning. We had to be ready to back up the Chinese if they came in. Moving the task force into the Bay of Bengal created precisely the margin of uncertainty needed to force a decision by New Delhi and Moscow...
...point of no return. As U.C.L.A. law school's Melville Nimmer, an authority on copyright, points out, "It's fundamentally a part of the whole technological revolution. The old copyright system of control at the source is breaking down. It's impossible to turn time back -or smash the machines...