Word: backtracked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would do if his daughter, now 13, grew up and had an unwanted pregnancy, he suggested that he would advise her to have the child but would support whatever decision she made -- including abortion. Pro-choice activists quickly said that sounded pro-choice to them, obliging Quayle to backtrack...
...Palestinian delegation must include a Jerusalem resident. The face-saving route around the impasse may lie in a house that al-Husseini has just completed in Ayn Siniya, a West Bank village 15 miles north of Jerusalem. Shamir, who has already rejected al- Husseini as a potential delegate, could backtrack and assert that al- Husseini is now a West Banker. And al-Husseini could take his seat, staunch in his conviction that he still speaks for Jerusalemites...