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...joyous chants from 10,000 supporters who had gathered at the soccer stadium in the industrial city of Valladolid for the campaign rally. As the candidate with the flashing smile and thick black hair took the stage, the crowd clapped and cheered its approval. "After 150 years of govern-ment by the right, we must try to put this country on the march," he declared, stabbing the air in a gesture of challenge. "And that can only be done by the Socialist Party...
...energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly.. . Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this nation. This difficult effort will be the 'moral equivalent of war, 'except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy...
...declared, "What you want to do is make the West Bank part of Israel." Vance added, "The whole idea is to let the people govern themselves. You are retaining a veto!" Begin responded, "We want to keep the right to do so?but we don't intend to do so." I said, "No self-respecting Arab would accept this. It looks like a subterfuge. We are talking about full autonomy?self-control. You are not giving them autonomy if you have to approve their laws, exercise a veto over their decisions and maintain a military
...synonym for "self-government for the Palestinians." (Sadat thought it sounded too much like Begin's "self-rule," and eventually I came up with "how the Palestinians shall govern themselves.") With great pressure I induced him to accept the language we had evolved on Jerusalem, provided there would be an exchange of letters reconfirming the historic U.S. position that East Jerusalem was part of the West Bank. Sadat agreed that the Wailing Wall should always be retained exclusively by the Jews...
...then discussed the equally serious problem of the Palestinians: how they should govern themselves after the Israeli military government was terminated, how many would be permitted to return to their homeland, and the status of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. There were sharp differences on these points, the most important of all for the Arabs. Israeli security and Palestinian rights were the two crucial demands that would be so hard to reconcile...