Word: equality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan has three benefits. The first removes the problems that will result if any particular ethnic group controls this holy city. Jerusalem is holy for three religions and there is no reason for Jews, Christians or Moslems to have a special claim to it. Yet all should have equal access to it. The second benefit comes with increased security. With a U.N.-controlled area similiar to the District of Columbia squashed between the West Bank and Israel that border is likely to be more secure and peaceful. The last benefit is that Israel will then make its capital Tel Aviv...
...equal importance, Pistone exposed the degree to which Government crime- busting efforts have weakened the Mafia, says Ronald Goldstock, director of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. The Mob, which once ran thorough security checks on any stranger, simply lacked the "discipline and internal controls" to unmask the agent, he says...
Politics will taint everything this year. But Reagan should be at least an equal act in the grand finale, an act that could produce the INF treaty ratification, a Moscow summit, a new Supreme Court Justice, a ringing budget and free-trade debate and a firming attitude against terrorism...
...Americans had been killed in Viet Nam and more than 100,000 wounded. During that time the war in Viet Nam became a gathering presence in American life. History obeyed Newton's Third Law of Motion: for every U.S. action in Viet Nam, there came a (seemingly) equal and opposite reaction back home. America internalized the war, as if it had swallowed fire. In the fall of 1967, 35,000 demonstrators had marched on the Pentagon and in the hip-mystic style had attempted with chants to levitate the palace of the war machine. Draft resistance had become a conspicuous...
Tung also claims that the Wharton School offered her a settlement, which sources claimed to exceed $10,000, if she would abandon her discrimination charges. Philadelphia's Equal Opportunity Commission is investigating those charges...