Word: forswear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aside, once and for all, the unrealistic vision of a greater Israel," Baker urged. Security interests could be satisfied, he said, by a settlement based on U.N. Resolution 242, which requires secure and recognized borders for Israel. For a change, Baker presented Israel with a U.S. wish ^ list: "Forswear annexation. Stop settlement activity. Allow ((Palestinian)) schools to reopen. Reach out to the Palestinians as neighbors who deserve political rights...
Dukakis' convention speech gave Ailes just the opportunity he was hoping for. Dukakis, moderate in the context of Massachusetts (where reform rather than substantial justice was always his theme), is a liberal by national standards. He is undemonstrative by temperament, in any case; but for him to forswear at least part of his own heritage made him look positively furtive. He seemed to be hiding secrets as well as his smile. That would help Ailes in the crucial assignment he had given himself -- turning the unrelentingly nice George Bush into a vicious campaigner...
...other issues. The most striking example was a decision to end long-standing church teaching against the baptism of polygamists. The Africans said the traditional stand cruelly forced converts to abandon their plural wives. Now converts in polygamous societies will be allowed to keep their wives if they forswear further marriages...
Brian says he has come to no final conclusions about his world-view but is confident that Jesus Christ fits comfortably within it. Though he now has a girlfriend, he continues to forswear drink and drugs...
Hussein extracted no promise from Arafat that the P.L.O. would forswear the use of violence against Israel. Nor did the monarch win a formal admission from the organization that it would recognize Israel's right to exist. However, in an interview with TIME Middle East Bureau Chief Dean Fischer after the meeting, Hussein said that he had given Arafat only a limited amount of time to provide that admission. Said the King: "There is no specific period of time, but we expect an answer in the near future . . . I believe that both the Jordanian and Palestinian sides have a clearer...