Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cuban dealers favor Mercedes Benzes and bodyguards dressed in dark suits and carrying two guns (one under the coat and one strapped to the ankle). José Medrano Alvero Cruz, nicknamed El Padrino, always travels in a Rolls-Royce protected by cars full of bodyguards. Alvero, who is fond of listening to the theme song from The Godfather on his car stereo, never talks on the telephone and keeps himself insulated from any drug deal through relatives and friends. Nevertheless, he was recently convicted for tax evasion...
Arafat's room to maneuver was also cramped by his dependence on Syria, which helps sustain the P.L.O. as a military force. Syrian Prime Minister Abdul-Rauf Kassem has criticized the Fahd plan as "ineffective." But Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam is known to favor it, and President Hafez Assad has yet to be convinced. Should the Syrians and the P.L.O. finally side with the Saudis, other intransigent states like Algeria would probably go along, leaving Libya the main opposition to the plan...
...completed next April, feels that the peace would be more durable if a settlement could be reached before then. Further more, there is growing concern in Jerusalem that Washington is becoming disenchanted with the slow pace of the autonomy talks and might abandon the Camp David approach in favor of the Fahd plan or some other alternative...
...United Nations supervision of the West Bank and Gaza Strip during a transitional period. The Palestinians favor this principle. The Israelis would agree to a transition period, but not under the U.N. Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government feels that the U.N. would be controlled by an anti-Israeli bloc...
Howell Jackson, a Review editor, said Wednesday that he was considering introducing such a plan. Jackson originally opposed the adoption of a race-conscious plan in favor of a "race-neutral" option that would not have taken applicants' race into account during the selection process...