Word: bolds
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WHEN IT COMES to speaking out, President Bok usually picks his shots carefully. Bok likes to work quietly within the system, aiming to influence national policy, rather than state bold positions on issues of the day. However, in his Annual Report to the Board of Overseers released last week. Bok takes one of those rare shots--in this case against the American legal system and its methods of legal education...
...this frenetic travel, whose purpose only the P.L.O. chairman himself could fathom, Arafat studiously managed to avoid going back to Jordan, where he had been engaged in intense discussions with King Hussein a week earlier. By not doing so, he dealt a crippling and possibly fatal blow to the bold Middle East peace plan that Ronald Reagan had proposed last September...
...Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Reagan declared that he was still "very hopeful" that his peace plan could remain the basis of future negotiations. Two days later, blaming the breakdown of the Amman talks on "radical elements" of the P.L.O., the President called on the Palestinian leadership to make "a bold and courageous move to break the [prevailing] deadlock." Added Reagan: "We will not permit the forces of violence and terror to exercise a veto over the peace process." Shortly thereafter, Arafat hinted to Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in Stockholm that he might still pursue negotiations with King Hussein...
...agreement with Hussein on a joint diplomatic strategy. Arab moderates have advised Arafat that, given the pressures imposed by the rapid Israeli colonization of the West Bank, it might be time to use the P.L.O.'s ultimate weapon-recognition of Israel's right to exist-in a bold show of statesmanship. But Arafat allowed the unity and preservation of the P.L.O. to take precedence over the interests of the West Bank's residents. Similarly, moderate Arab leaders like Saudi Arabia's King Fahd have been reluctant to apply much pressure on Arafat...
...week. But the P.L.O. leader did not come back. For the moment at least, he seemed unable to make a move that might alienate hard-liners within his organization and possibly provoke a split. That appeared to leave Hussein with the toughest decision of all: whether to take the bold and dangerous step of joining the peace process...