Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talks among Lebanon's factions. Before the country's warlords adjourned their meetings in Geneva two weeks ago, they agreed to "freeze" the Israeli-Lebanese troop withdrawal agreement signed last May and instead to focus attention on reshaping the Lebanese political structure, which is now tilted in favor of the Christians. During the recess, President Amin Gemayel is sounding out the U.S. and Arab leaders on how to amend the accord and still satisfy both Israel and Syria. This week he is scheduled to meet with Assad in Damascus. Jerusalem insists it will not pull out its soldiers...
...Gemayel engaged in his delicate tinkering, a 14-member commission in Geneva reached some "tentative conclusions" on constitutional changes. Among the proposals: a parliament with upper and lower houses would replace the single-chamber legislature and be equally divided between Muslims and Christians, instead of the current ratio in favor of the Christians. The posts of President and Prime Minister would continue to go to a Maronite Christian and a Sunni Muslim, respectively, but a vice presidency would be created and be reserved for a Muslim. Although heartened by the results, committee members stressed that these were suggestions that must...
...clearly a major mistake on their part. They decided to exploit the tragedy to build up an atmosphere of tension that they could then use to influence the debate on an entirely different issue, namely the deployment of U.S. missiles in Europe. They felt that this tension would favor their purpose in trying to delay or avoid U.S the deployment. I think they've failed in this, and frankly it's hard to understand the purposes of Soviet policy at this moment. They seem to want a limit in medium-range missiles in Europe, but they haven...
Arguments in favor of a "new international economic order" inevitably come down to the vast numbers of starving people, particularly the starving children. Any system that produces so much misery alongside extravagant wealth...
...turns out that Harvard sailed on the same boat with Edward Hopkins, the uncle of Elihu Yale, a man who did a similar favor for a struggling New Haven college in 1718. Never mind the differences in the patron saints--Harvard was a stern religious man while Yale, the governor of Madras, used his official position to reap a fortune in the diamond trade and sent his wife off to England alone while he lived with a Portuguese mistress...