Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rents. To pass along his tax savings, one apartment-house owner pledged to lower rents $30 a month for 1,000 tenants. San Jose Businessman Larry Whitaker, president of Halcyon Communications, Inc., said he would prorate his own $18,921 property tax cut among his 150 California employees. The Bank of San Pedro knocked ¼% off its consumer loan rate in a similar move to distribute its tax benefits...
Jerusalem's answer on the West Bank further dims peace prospects...
What triggered much of this latest activity was Israel's response to two questions that the Carter Administration put to Dayan during a Washington visit two months ago. The U.S. pointedly asked Dayan to clarify Jerusalem's position on the captured Arab territory in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip: Would Israel be willing to declare that at the end of five years the final status of these areas would be resolved? And how might this resolution take place...
...sacred mission" to Jerusalem. But the passage of time had not changed attitudes. The Israeli government's response was only a crisp observation that five years after a peace agreement Israel would be willing to negotiate "the nature of future relations" between itself and the West Bank. With that virtual nonanswer, the Begin government signaled once more that it was determined to hold on to the West Bank and Gaza at any price, even at the cost of foreclosing the best opportunity Israel has had to make peace with its Arab neighbors since its founding 30 years...
After consulting key Cabinet members, Begin at week's end was reported to have arrived at a compromise that would be backed by the Cabinet and stave off major resignations for the moment. But Begin's reluctance to commit himself to yielding Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank was increasingly viewed as untenable and unrealistic, even by members of his Cabinet. The bitter mood building against the Premier was underscored last week by a member of the Knesset from Begin's Likud coalition. "Labor managed to wreck Israel in 29 years of government," he said...