Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Privately, however, Administration officials were saying that a "conceptual breakthrough" had been achieved, and that the chances of concluding a SALT II agreement before the end of 1977 had vastly improved. The Soviet-American understanding came virtually on the eve of the formal expiration of a key section of SALT I (TIME, Oct. 3) and breathed life into the faltering spirit of detente...
Some Middle East experts argue that a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza would be more of a safeguard for Israel than a hazard. For one thing, such a state would not be entirely free. Even P.L.O. leaders now talk approvingly about having formal links with Jordan, whose ruler, King Hussein, desperately wants peace with Israel. Moreover, it is clearly in the interests of moderate Arab nations that a dangerously radical regime does not emerge in any Palestinian state. A radical Palestine would be as likely to stir up unrest in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, the Arabs...
...used to make a decent living growing tobacco and olives. Now it is an area caught in a strange, static war, with Israeli armor and infantry crossing over to help the Christians fight the Palestinians. No land has been taken by either side. Nor has there been any formal battle, with a winner and a loser...
Still, the Synod remains the church's only international sounding board, and speeches there will be, dissected for hints on the bishops' attitudes toward the future direction of the papacy. The most pressing question will, of course, go unarticulated in the formal sessions: Who will succeed Paul...
...chief legacy to Germany. This Prussian pantheon, overlooking the bombed-out paddocks where Hitler's chancellery once stood, is as perfectly suited to a constructivist show as St. Peter's is to Bernini's papal tombs; box and contents are one. The idealism, the formal absolutism and the faith in a new social order, coupled with the abstracted indifference to verifiable human needs that lay at the core of the constructivist enterprise, are all written large on its grid...