Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israel accepted a U.N. plan to partition Palestine, which would make an Arab state out of a much larger area than is now encompassed by the occupied territories. The Palestinians fought the partition; according to U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie, "the Arabs repeatedly had asserted that they would resist partition by force." A Palestinian spokesperson called the partition "a line of fire and blood...
Flynn, who endorsed the tax plan in general terms, stopped short of supporting each element in the package, which would raise taxes on investments, gasoline, cigarettes, alcohol, interstate telephone calls and other areas...
...with a new set of peace proposals. As they see it, all the parties to the conflict, except for the present Israeli government, already favor the convening of an international conference that includes Palestinian representation. "We don't need any more new ; initiatives," Hussein said. "There is a general agreement that an international conference would be the venue for the establishment of peace. All the parties have to participate. The Palestinians have to be involved. So we have to get on with it, rather than start looking for new formulas...
...legal abortions. Advocates of such operations see them as the only safe alternative to often fatal clandestine methods, symbolized by the coat-hanger emblems on many pro-choice posters. The view that abortion at least does not harm women got a boost last week from a surprising source: Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who, after a year of study, found no proof that women obtaining legal abortions suffered a greater incidence of physical or psychological harm than women who brought their pregnancies to term...
...Surgeon General' s latestc report says tobacco has taken an even higher toll in death and disease than was forecast. -- A treatment for osteoporosis uses an old dental ally: sodium fluoride...