Word: generall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alienated from the rest of the Middle East. With Iran now in unfriendly and potentially hostile hands, Washington cannot afford too great a loosening of its ties with Saudi Arabia, a country strongly committed to pan-Arab interests. To assure moderate Arab states of the U.S. dedication to a general Middle East settlement, Carter is dispatching a high-level delegation on a rush visit to Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Reflecting the broad geopolitical concerns of the U.S., the group is headed by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and includes General David Jones, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...fact, negotiations were completed on a framework for settling nearly all of the major issues at the September summit, which ended with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signing two accords. The first was an outline of a comprehensive Middle East peace; the second was a general description of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Highlights of the overall settlement, including the details worked out last week...
...After some 65 years of Jewish immigration, greatly accelerated during the era of Nazi persecution, the United Nations General Assembly votes to abolish the 1920 British mandate and partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. The Arabs reject the plan, and civil strife worsens...
Though the trial began after midnight, about 200 members of the "general public" crammed into the small, whitewashed room. Hoveida sat on a chair in front of the court, which consisted of a mullah and two Iranian judges from the now disbanded secular courts. Composed but groggy because he had taken a sleeping pill earlier, Hoveida looked around in amazement and said he had been promised an afternoon session. The presiding judge replied: "Day or night makes no difference, because this is a revolutionary court...
...only clothes I have." He asked permission to remove a large name card pinned to his chest. The presiding judge agreed, saying, "You don't need an identification tag." The judge then read a 17-point indictment; each of the charges carried the death penalty. They ranged from general corruption to spying for the West and smuggling heroin from France...