Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Self-rule v. self-determination for the West Bank and Gaza...
...Jimmy Carter last week almost threw the Middle East peace drive into an icy spin. In a conversation with news correspondents on a nationwide television hookup, Carter declared that Israeli Premier Menachem Begin had taken "a long step forward" by offering self-rule to the Palestinians on the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip; only a week earlier he had told Begin in Washington that many of his proposals had not gone far enough. Then, almost in passing, Carter added that the U.S. could not countenance "a radical Palestinian state in the heart of the Middle...
...meantime, Menachem Begin-the man who has long proclaimed the Jews' "natural and eternal right" to the West Bank-was angrily criticized at home by the 60,000 Israelis who have settled in the occupied territories. "What right does anyone have to tell people they will not be in Israel?" demanded David Margalit, who lives in the northern Sinai settlement of Yamit. Cried an American emigrant who also lives in Yamit: "I didn't come from Miami Beach to live in Egypt!" As settlers demonstrated outside, a member of Begin's own Likud coalition, Moshe Shamir, argued...
Adding up the plusses and minuses, Chase Manhattan Bank's chief European economist, Geoffrey Maynard, asserts...
Some Christmas cheer for Bert Lance. First, Saudi businessman Ghaith Pharaon said he would pay $20 a share (more than 33% above the going rate) for 120,000 shares of the former Budget Director's stock in the National Bank of Georgia. The $2.4 million deal should leave a fat profit (a third of a million or so) in Lance's stocking. Then there was a gift from Wife LaBelle: a family portrait by Atlanta Artist Comer Jennings. LaBelle especially liked how Jennings painted her diamond pendant-the "broken heart," as she calls it, that Bert gave...