Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Obvious Disappointment. Arab statesmen, on the other hand, who like to pretend that they pay no attention at all to Israeli politics, were obviously disappointed by the outcome. They believe that the suave, eloquent Peres is a stronger leader than the cautious, dogmatic Rabin, and that he would be willing to make unpopular decisions toward peace. Still, the vote was so narrow that not even Peres, had he won, would have felt politically secure enough at home to push for such forthright negotiations with the Arabs...
...said: "Some years ago we had the vision to suggest a federation of Palestine and Jordan. Now maybe this plan can be looked at again." The King, of course, envisages two states, each with its own Parliament, united under his Hashemite crown. The Israelis were particularly cautious in their reaction to the Sadat proposal, arguing that they could not comment until they discussed its details with U.S. officials. Vance, however, told newsmen that Sadat's plan is "constructive. There appears to be a narrowing of the different positions, [though] I don't want to say there aren...
...then turn savagely against him when he does not deliver. We are not sure of the effects of Carter's economic package. His relations with Congress are not certain. The energy policy that he has promised is yet to be delivered. We just cannot seem to find a cautious middle ground. So right now, a lot of things are being said and written about Jimmy Carter that make him larger than life...
Says Dimitri Simes, director of Soviet Policy Studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies, himself a Soviet Jew who left Russia in 1973: "A cautious effort to make the Soviet Union a more tolerant and civilized society is both moral and practical. At the same time, we have to know the limits of our power." In sum, the U.S. cannot and should not hope to change the Soviet system; such a hope or intention could only be highly dangerous. But the U.S. may, by speaking out for its own principles, make Soviet and other Communist...
UTTAS means opportunity to the surrounding area too. Sikorsky's Tobias estimates that Connecticut's economy will benefit to the tune of $60 million a year and every new job at Sikorsky will create "two to 2½ outside." But Sikorsky is cautious about new hiring: the firm will add only 400 to 500 people this year and a maximum of 2,000 by 1980. That means disappointment for most of the 6,000 skilled and semiskilled job seekers who have come to pound on the plant door since Sikorsky won the award...