Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...P.L.O. cause was probably strongest in the Arab world after the disastrous Six-Day War in 1967, when Arab armies had been roundly defeated and the underground Palestinians emerged as the most heroic and effective anti-Israel group around. But the Arab dislike of Palestinians arises largely from the fact that under the British, who ruled Palestine through a League of Nations mandate for 30 years after World War I, they became the best-educated people in the region. They have produced more doctors, lawyers, teachers and scientists (Arafat is an engineer by training) than any Arab nation, and their...
...merits, the warplanes package could not have been proposed at a more inopportune time. Though increasingly troubled by the direction of White House policy, the American Jewish community had also been growing uneasy-and increasingly divided among itself-over Begin's hard-line attitude toward peace negotiations. In fact, early last month the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations advised Begin that his stance was creating the appearance of intransigence and was costing him support from American Jews. Had the White House exploited this opening, it might have been able to nudge Jerusalem toward the concessions needed...
...Christian Democrats, Moro was the architect of the carefully devised political formula that had finally brought the Communists into the parliamentary majority. A law professor, he was noted as a conciliator and master of the anomalous solution that enabled disparate political forces to find common ground. He was, in fact, the leading candidate to succeed Giovanni Leone as Italian President at the end of the year...
Throughout the noisy campaign, none of the center-right candidates dared tell French voters of the true dimensions of their problems. The official unemployment figure (1.04 million, or 4.7% of the work force) hides the fact that some 60,000 jobs are currently being supported artificially, many of them in companies that receive government subsidies to maintain operations. Some analysts estimate that the government has been spending more than $12 billion a year-one-sixth of the national budget-to prop up weak industries...
That assessment is shared by Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal and Charles Schultze. chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, who are taking little comfort from the fact that unemployment dropped to a three-year low of 6.1% in January. Last week they went so far as to urge President Carter to take some form of action. The basic, underlying rate of inflation has been stuck since mid-1975 at 6%, already an unacceptable figure. A 15-page memo circulating within the Administration warns that the base rate is about to accelerate. Can double-digit inflation be far behind...