Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...satellites of their own, thus fueling the region's arms race and irritating the Soviet Union at a time when Jerusalem is trying to improve relations with Moscow. The ten members of Israel's inner Cabinet are expected to make a decision within the next few weeks. Another consideration: some Israeli politicians fear that if a satellite is launched before the country's November elections, the public will consider the move a cynical ploy to win votes...
Deep skepticism is in order. The P.L.O.'s 24-year history is replete with rumors of imminent peace overtures soon followed by truculent denials. Arafat is infamous for his ambiguous pronouncements and retracted statements. With reason: in the past, hard-liners within his fractious organization who consider all of Israel...
In the West, meanwhile, there is concern that Zia's death may mean that Pakistan will retreat from its vigorous support of the Afghan rebels. Zia had personally supervised the CIA-financed and Pakistani-run operations that gave sanctuary, training and arms to Afghan resistance fighters. Though many Pakistanis opposed...
The Republicans consider themselves the entrepreneur's greatest patrons, but they failed to patronize one entrepreneur in the Superdome shopping arcade. Renee Donwen had a concession selling photographs of customers posing with life-size cardboard cutouts of Bush and Reagan.
Like many outsiders after the war, he went first to Odessa and then to ) Midland, in the raw western part of Texas where the Permian oil pool was being divvied up by eager investors. So many Ivy Leaguers were moving onto the dusty fields that new streets were being laid...