Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their third in eight months. Begin's hard-line pronouncements were only too familiar in Washington. He had refused to concede, as his predecessors had done, that Israel's acceptance of United Nations Resolution 242 meant that it was committed to an eventual withdrawal from the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as from the Sinai and Golan Heights. He had declined to accept Carter's formulation, proposed in January on a trip to Aswan, that the Palestinians have the right "to participate in determination of their own future." He had adamantly opposed Carter...
...aides met first for two hours in the Cabinet Room in the West Wing of the White House. The Israelis reluctantly agreed to talk about peace principles first and Lebanon, only fleetingly, later. Carter pleaded with the Premier to agree to withdraw troops from most of the West Bank in exchange for two conditions: that neighboring Arab states would establish full diplomatic, economic and other relations with Israel, and that the U.S. would consider guaranteeing Israel's security...
...talked as though the U.S. were proposing an independent Palestinian state. "Why do you keep saying that?" Carter asked. "Nobody is asking you to agree to a Palestinian state. Nobody wants that." Begin kept reciting his own technical explanation of why Resolution 242 did not apply to the West Bank. "I'm not worried about the words and how you interpret them," said Carter. "What disturbs me is my impression that what you're really saying-I shouldn't put it so bluntly, but I will-my impression is that what you're really saying...
JOBS. The Federal Government will offer tax breaks, subsidies and other inducements for businesses to remain in poor neighborhoods, to set up plants in them or expand existing ones. As a further incentive, a National Development Bank, nicknamed Urbank, will be created to offer the businesses low-interest loans...
...faced with several hard choices. These included whether and how to try to resume the stalled peace negotiations with Egypt, how to deal with what promised to be a redoubled threat against them from the Palestinian guerrillas, whether to reconsider their stand against yielding any of the occupied West Bank, and how to improve their testy relations with Washington. Probably the touchiest question of all was whether these decisions should continue to be entrusted to the nine-month-old Begin government...