Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that peace has its hazards ?and that it will cost U.S. taxpayers a large amount of money (see box)?should not dim the luster of Carter's diplomatic triumph. Reaction to it has nearly been unanimously positive. "A minor miracle," exclaimed Jim Wright, Democratic majority leader in the House of Representatives. Said New Hampshire Democratic Chief Romeo Dorval: "Now the President can tackle bread-and-butter issues with more confidence. People will look to him with more respect because of what he's accomplished. It was quite a gamble, but worth it." The Republicans made little effort...
...sense of when the breaking point is near, suddenly became conciliatory. He said that he would present these "serious proposals" to his Cabinet. If it supported them, he added, they would be sent to the Knesset. And if the proposals were defeated there, his government would resign. Begin, in fact, was almost effusive as he bade Carter farewell at Ben-Gurion. Said he: "You came on the highest mission in humanity, for peace, and you have succeeded." Then he added: "Now, of course, it is the turn of Egypt...
...Technicalities, legalisms and phrases." So Jimmy Carter once described the issues that kept the Egyptians and Israelis from signing a peace treaty for six months after the Camp David summit. In fact, negotiations were completed on a framework for settling nearly all of the major issues at the September summit, which ended with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signing two accords. The first was an outline of a comprehensive Middle East peace; the second was a general description of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Highlights of the overall settlement, including the details worked...
Conflicting predictions have been made for years, while 35 of the necessary 38 states ratified the measure, but the surprising fact is that some of the answers are already in. Since 1970, 14 states-have written equal rights for women into their own state constitutions. Experience in those states, according to a report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, "provides an important model for ERA implementation on a national level...
Jones had called his followers together after a two-day visit by California Congressman Leo Ryan. The Temple leader was outraged by the fact that a score of the cultists had asked Ryan to help them escape the colony. Ryan's party and the defectors had left Jonestown to fly home from a nearby airstrip. Jones knew of a plot by his group to shoot the pilot of one of the visitors' two planes. He was not aware, at first, that Ryan and four others in the party had already been ambushed and slain at the airfield...