Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chasm. In most of the debates over the territories, Prime Minister Golda Meir has sided with the hawks. She seems to have strong popular backing for her increasingly militant stand. A survey published last week by the Institute for Applied Social Research in Jerusalem noted that 58% of Israeli adults opposed concessions on the West Bank (v. 41% a year ago). Other findings: 96% want to keep Sharm el Sheikh and 93% the Golan Heights; 63% are prepared to give up part of the Sinai Desert in return for a peace settlement, but 66% feel that the Gaza Strip, formerly...
There is another division within Israeli society that will even more profoundly influence the nation's future. Every country has a generation gap between its leadership and its younger citizens. In Israel, the gap is a veritable chasm. The ruling elite is almost entirely made up of men and women, now in their 60s and 70s, who were born in Europe. Only two members of the present 19-man Cabinet, Dayan and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, are native-born Israelis, as are only 27 out of 120 members of the Knesset...
...apparent stability does not render it legitimate. We must continue to demand that the Faculty live up to its professed ideal of maintaining a community of free and rational discourse characterized by reciprocal rights and responsibilities. The Faculty must be made to see the chasm between its beliefs and its actions: the Resolution must be rewritten before reforms in the CRR can be considered...
However, Brown had the making of an improbable alliance. As a teenager he had worked in Washington for then-Congressman John Bell Williams, an oldline Mississippi conservative. Although an ideological chasm separated them politically, a close friendship remained...
...striving to achieve some measure of dignity and control over thei own lives--an objective Americans have traditionally championed. What should trouble Americans is not the realization that their government has employed some sort of violence. It is the repressive objective of that violence that demands condemnation, illuminating the chasm between our government's professed ideals and its conduct...