Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first difficulties came from Israel's Premier Menachem Begin, who almost immediately began raising objections to what Vance had thought was an agreed-upon moratorium on new Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Next, both Jordan and Saudi Arabia, whose support is crucial to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, openly criticized the Camp David agreements. Other protests arose like a sandstorm, not only from such radical states as Libya, South Yemen and Algeria, and, of course, the Palestine Liberation Organization, but also from Syria and such moderate and normally friendly states as Bahrain, Qatar, North Yemen, Kuwait...
...public even moderate Palestinians opposed the Camp David agreement. But in private, one West Bank political leader said last week: "Don't believe all the strong words you hear. If Hussein should become involved, we will move forward with the agreement." The trouble is that anyone who voices such sentiments publicly just now is inviting immediate retaliation by the P.L.O...
...What was actually agreed on about the building of new settlements on the West Bank? The Americans say it was agreed that there would be no new settlements for the five years of the transition period...
FREE PATTY plead T shirts and bumper stickers by the thousands in California. They are visible evidence of a rapidly growing movement to win the release of Patricia Hearst from the federal correctional institution at Pleasanton, Calif., where she is serving a seven-year term for bank robbery. Every weekend in San Diego, 50 volunteers canvass shoppers at supermarkets, collecting signatures on petitions to President Carter. Similar efforts are under way across the country, and a leader of the campaign claims that 40,000 people have signed pleas for clemency. The White House and the Justice Department have received...
Soon after Steven Masover, 19, held up a bank in Menlo Park, Calif., last November, he was apprehended with $78,000 of the bank's cash, an unloaded gun, a fake bomb and three hostages. In court, Masover, who was valedictorian of his class in high school, relied on a bizarre defense: he had stolen the money, but only to invest it in colonies in outer space as a way for earthlings to escape pollution and overpopulation. Moreover, he planned to pay the money back in 20 years or so, making the heist a forced loan rather than...