Word: favor
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Japan is also growing more active on the diplomatic front. On a Middle East tour last week, Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno became the first Japanese Cabinet minister to visit Israel; heavily dependent on oil imports, Japan had long snubbed Israel to keep favor with the Arab states. In early June the Japanese offered to mediate a Vietnamese withdrawal from Kampuchea...
While polls show that most liberal Protestants still favor a virtually unlimited right to abortion, many are alarmed by the high count of women who exercise that right. "People in general don't want the opportunity for abortion taken away, but something has to be done when you see the numbers," says Scott Evans, a member of the Episcopal Church's executive council. In addition, Protestants have yet to provide a prochoice theology that is convincing to churchgoers...
...should be able to wield influence in this fall's election. But it seems ever more likely that the Jackson campaign of 1988 will go the way of the Jackson campaign of 1984--ceasing to matter after the convention. Unless he chooses to make a dramatic turn either in favor of or antagonistic to the party's all-but-certain nominee, Michael S. Dukakis, Jackson will be of no more significance in the fall election than the other five dwarves who failed to capture the nomination...
...policies and his position. More than 35 people have been killed in four months of demonstrations and occasional violence over the status of Nagorno- Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. Last week the issue took a surprising turn, when the Armenian supreme soviet, or parliament, voted in favor of annexing Nagorno-Karabakh, contradicting the position taken in March by Moscow party leaders. The vote also put the Armenian leaders in conflict with their counterparts in Azerbaijan, who had decided earlier in the week not to relinquish control of Nagorno-Karabakh. It was the first time in Soviet history that...
...Wright brothers' 1903 Flyer was of the canard type, with a pair of horizontal stabilizers mounted in front of the pilot. Though the shape had certain advantages in slow-speed flight -- it was highly resistant to stalls -- it proved too unstable at high speeds, and was eventually abandoned in favor of aircraft with stabilizers fixed to their tails. Now, with computers available to design planes and with fly-by-wire controls to help steer them, Beech and ) Piaggio have revived the original concept...