Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat, TIME has learned, made a six-point proposal for meeting Israel's security needs that impressed U.S. officials with its flexibility. The plan envisioned some Israeli military strongpoints remaining on the West Bank following a general troop withdrawal. It also called for U.N. military control of the strategic site of Sharm el Sheikh, and stationing of almost all Egyptians in the Sinai to the west of the strategic Mitla and Giddi passes, with a U.N. force east of the passes and creation of a large "buffer zone...
...general, though, many Jews feel that the struggle for public support is too noisy, and that it fails to lead toward peace. Says Leo Dunn, president of Boston's Jewish Community Council: "It would be better to stop the public relations push in the United States at this point and go and sit down for some quiet negotiating...
...treaties; its opposition created a difficult problem for Senate G.O.P. members and particularly for the minority leader, Howard Baker of Tennessee, who wants a shot at his party's presidential nomination in 1980. Last month after a visit to Panama, requested by the country's ruler, General Omar Torrijos, Baker announced his pivotal sup port for a slightly modified treaty. "I told Senator Baker," said Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, "if either you or I go against the treaties, they probably will be defeated. If both you and I go for them, they may be confirmed...
After three days of debate, the Senators adjourned for a week-long recess; but before leaving Washington, they agreed to an unusual closed-door session next week to discuss charges that General Torrijos is involved in secret drug traffic. When the issue was raised by a treaty opponent, Robert Dole of Kansas, Fellow Republican Jacob Javits of New York argued that the point was meaningless. "We don't have to prove that Torrijos is an angel. I don't think he is ... What is important is whether the treaties are in the long-term interest of the United...
...widespread opposition has become to Somoza, whose family exercises virtually absolute control over the political, military and commercial affairs of the country. Outspoken resistance to the regime had traditionally been confined to members of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), a 16-year-old underground socialist group named for General Augusto C. Sandino, a Nicaraguan Military commander who fought for the ouster of U.S. Marines from the country in the 1930s. But in recent weeks and months, scores of businessmen, "legal" political groups, journalists, and of course the overwhelming mass of poor Nicaraguans have joined forces with the Sandinistas...