Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fairbank: We can foresee the limitations within which they can develop their program, For example, as Mr. Perkins will indicate tomorrow, an economist can suggest some limitations, and then everyone can argue with...
...moderate, without getting the west bank of his country back. Palestinian Jordan, which the Israelis now hold, is the most prosperous part of his land. It contains nearly a third of the arable farm land, nearly half the population-and Jerusalem. With U.S. and British aid, long-range development programs and expanded tourism, Hussein had expected to make his country self-supporting by 1971. Without the west bank, however, and the strong tourist revenues from the Old City of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, there is little possibility that Jordan can ever develop a really viable economy...
Other individuals and some congregations made similar inquiries at the Department of Defense in Washington. Some of them were opposed to the entire Confession and were using the security argument to develop support for their position; others were for the Confession but opposed to this statement; others felt torn in their loyalties between church and state...
...importance of the exchange within the Church and the Defense Department rests partly in the fact that such experiences transform confessional statements into declaratory acts. Polarization occurs. Conflicts develop. People who were silent begin to speak out. Values that people have held intellectually--about justice, truth, love, and compassion--become acts as well as beliefs. People who until recently led quiet and uninvolved lives are becoming political activists. Some are members of churches and others are not. And as the force of their commitments may chance to coincide with each other's and with some formal statement within the Confession...
...this is a representative sample of Israel's plans to "develop the Old City," then God help Jerusalem...