Word: governments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...height of the Watergate crisis: "He refuses to recognize the reality around him. He denounces his critics for giving comfort to Israel's enemies and being driven solely by partisan political motives. Meanwhile, the outrage in the country multiplies, the divisiveness deepens, the moral authority of the government and its capacity to govern deteriorate...
...Israel for help during the civil war, and his frank intention was to have close, friendly relations between Lebanon and Israel. But he intended to do it only on the basis of national consensus. He meant to go slowly rather than leave behind those he needed in order to govern...
During a 45-min. meeting with Kohl Thursday evening, Schmidt tried to convince him that a quick, clean contest might result in an absolute Christian Democratic majority-and a mandate to govern without F.D.P. support. Kohl was noncommittal. Schmidt then summoned Genscher and told him pointblank that he had "lost political confidence" in the Free Democrats...
Full Autonomy. Reagan in his letter to Begin defined this phrase as giving "Palestinian inhabitants real authority over themselves, the land and its resources." Israel argues that the phrase means giving Palestinians the right to govern themselves, but not authority over the land and resources of the West Bank and Gaza. The meaning of "autonomy" was deliberately left undefined in the accords. According to U.S. participants in the talks, Camp David envisioned a transfer of authority linked to resolution of Israel's security concerns. Says an Egyptian official: "Whenever we had a difference of opinion in the autonomy talks...
...many Mexicans, the govern ment's drastic prescriptions seemed near ly as bad as the disease: the imposition of strict currency controls, an effective freeze on most dollar accounts, sharp price hikes and the second peso devalua tion in six months. Most was Silva Herzog's admission that Mexico was unable to meet current payments on its huge $80 billion foreign debt, among the highest in the Third World. The statement raised the specter of a possible default that would have a domino effect on the international banking system. No one was more concerned than U.S. bankers...