Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controlling. But the Supreme Court in June declared unconstitutional the procedure under which Congress delegates authority to the Executive Branch to perform certain acts while reserving the option to later overrule the Executive. The committee protested that it had ordered Watt not to cancel the sale but only to delay it. Watt said even that action was unconstitutional...
...daily, reported that Begin had stopped shaving and was eating only soup. The Prime Minister's office immediately responded by announcing that Begin was suffering from a mild skin disease that prevented him from shaving for the time being. Later that day, obviously realizing he could no longer delay his resignation but still reluctant to appear in public, Begin dispatched Meridor to Herzog's office...
...negotiations with the Soviets for a new consular agreement and expanded scientific and cultural exchanges, and an appeal to other nations to suspend air service to and from the U.S.S.R. for 60 days. There would be no revocation of the just concluded grain-sales agreement with Moscow, and no delay in arms-control talks. Reagan told his speechwriters he wanted no broad-scale attack on the Soviet Union but rather a speech tightly focused on the airliner atrocity. Nonetheless, of the two drafts on his desk Monday morning, one was too strident and the other too general to please...
Ironically, it was the Begin government's decision to pull its troops back to a more secure line at the Awali River, 17 miles south of Beirut, that helped precipitate the latest fighting. With the situation in Lebanon deteriorating, the U.S. had asked Begin to delay his government's plan to redeploy Israeli forces to the Awali. In one of his last acts as Prime Minister, Begin agreed to the Reagan request; in return, he received some harsh criticism from one of his colleagues. At the Cabinet meeting at which Begin announced his plan to resign, Minister Without...
Before delivering the formal letter of resignation to President Chaim Herzog, Begin promised to meet with representatives from his Likud coalition. Despite the assurances of a Begin aide that the Prime Minister was not being "Machiavellian," the slight delay seemed to signal that Begin would still be open to friendly persuasion. During the Monday-morning gathering in the Prime Minister's offices, one coalition leader after another pleaded with Begin to stay on, arguing that his departure might bring Labor Leader Shimon Peres to power and weaken the Israeli position in Lebanon and the West Bank. Begin sat through...