Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Begin's government is also adopting an increasingly hard line toward Arab residents of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. They are overwhelmingly opposed to both the peace treaty and to Begin's proposals for the kind of limited "autonomy" he thinks the Palestinians of those regions should have. In Begin's view the Israeli army should still be responsible for the security and public order of the West Bank and Gaza. Jews should be free to settle on the West Bank, and should be immune from rulings of the elected Palestinian administrative council. Israel would...
...West Bank Palestinians are understandably furious over Begin's proposals. Anwar Nuseibeh, a former Jordanian Defense Minister who is now an attorney in East Jerusalem, argues that the plan calls for "a perpetuation of the present occupation without our consent." In the current bitterness, the forthcoming negotiations on Palestinian autonomy, to be attended by Egyptian, Israeli and American officials, are dismissed by virtually all West Bank Arabs as irrelevant...
...three years after its complaint was filed, Barr recounted, the Government did almost nothing. Pretrial "discovery," which allows lawyers to search for facts and find out what evidence the other side plans to use, did not begin until 1972. For the next two years, each side deluged the other with paper, 30 million pages worth. After several delays, the trial began in 1975 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. It took the Government almost three years to present its case; one witness alone testified for 78 days...
...Inauguration and argued that SALT II must come to grips with the twin problems of Soviet heavy missiles and Soviet land-based MIRVs. Afterward Jackson sent the President a detailed, 23-page memo, drafted by his right-hand man for strategic affairs, Richard Perle. "If further negotiations were to begin where the Ford-Kissinger negotiations left off," the memo concluded, "you would unnecessarily assume the burden of past mistakes...
...Where did Ron Fairly begin his Major League career...