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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...
...remnant has been Gong Pinmei (Ignatius Kung), the bishop of Shanghai, who has been imprisoned for treason since 1955, steadfastly maintaining his loyalty to the Vatican. Xinhua, the official government news agency, last week reported that Gong, now nearly 84, had "repented" and had been paroled after agreeing to forswear any further contact with the Vatican. Gong, the news agency said, had kissed the ring of the Patriotic Bishop of Shanghai "and promised to act under his guidance...
...them have mastered, or are well on their way to mastering, the skills to produce atomic explosives. Unlike such nations as West Germany and Japan, which have also conquered the technology, the phantoms have declined to forswear the right to build atomic weapons by signing the nonproliferation treaty. As a result, some of their most sensitive nuclear activities are taking place outside the scope of International Atomic Energy Agency inspection...
...before it was politically necessary. And there Bach is praised for giving "artistic expression to the people's aspirations and endeavors for peace." But he is impervious to political manipulation, as Luther and Wagner are not. He was not seduced by the devil, who tempted so many others to forswear a basic tenet of humanity long before the Wall made the spiritual division of the German soul visible...
Late in the Johnson Administration, at the Glassboro summit, Robert McNamara patiently tried to persuade Premier Alexei Kosygin that it was in the interests of both countries to forswear large-scale antiballistic missile (ABM) defenses, since a defensive arms race would only escalate the offensive one already under way. Each side would feel compelled to increase the number and destructiveness of weapons with which to "penetrate" the defenses of the other. Eventually, in the first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) during the first Nixon Administration, the Soviets agreed to limit ABMs...