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...meeting of the National Security Council on Monday that was chaired by Reagan, N.S.C. Adviser William Clark agreed with Weinberger and Bush that the U.S. should express some criticism of Israel. When Reagan approved, the N.S.C. decided to defer the formal notification to Congress of U.S. intentions to sell 75 F-16 fighters to Israel. But the slowdown, which has no time limit, will have little impact, since the aircraft are not to be delivered until 1985. To ease the wrist tap even further, the announcement of the deferral was made quietly...
...parties now seek to pull out of the Camp David framework, there will be little hope for progress on those issues which they agreed to defer to let history contribute to a solution. There will be no solution on autonomy. But if they continue to abide by the concept agreed to at Camp David, which establishes a transition period in which confidence building can emerge under a central governing authority, there is no reason that this is undoable...
...difference between the student sleeping unaware in bed as a rally marches past the window, and the student who knows about the rally, but whose questioning and considering have led to a decision to defer or have perhaps frozen him or her in uncertainty...
...union made some important concessions in the negotiations. During the next 29 months, the union will give up its 3% annual pay hike, defer payment of three quarterly cost of living increases, accept fewer paid personal holidays and allow GM to hire new workers at a lower wage rate than existing employees receive. While they are losing some days off, workers will not be taking wage cuts. Cost of living payments, though temporarily deferred, will eventually ensure that union members keep up with inflation...
...Guardia Airport that "you could roll a bowling ball through the terminal without hitting anybody," said one airline official. Air New England shut down in October, throwing 400 people out of work. Daniel May, president of Minneapolis-based Republic Airlines, whose pilots and flight attendants have been asked to defer part of their pay to cut costs, cited some of the industry's troubles: "Low fares. The PATCO strike. The recession. High interest rates. They're just killing...