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Both authors chronicle the gradual, and still very partial, relaxation of government policy towards the Arabs. However, it is very clear that even a positive official position--if such were to be initiated--could not alleviate the problem completely. The Jewish population's attitudes remain hostile and suspicious, and social interaction between Jews and Arabs is infrequent. Clearly, normalization of relations is linked to a wider Middle East solution--but even if that is not forthcoming, there is much that the Israeli government and populace can do within Israel to defuse the threat of a hostile, unified Arab minority...
...future direction in the squad's schedule, the coach anticipates gradual improvement. "Right now I'd like to concentrate on a solid dual or tri-meet schedule, and when this team solidifies, we can start looking to big meets," he said...
...Carter's view, the U.S. must conserve if it hopes to leave "a decent world for our children and our grandchildren." He said the sacrifices he would ask of Americans "will be painful" but also "gradual, realistic?and, above all, fair." Well aware of the difficulties in getting his program through Congress, he predicted special-interest groups would proclaim "sacrifice is fine, as long as other people do it." Pointedly looking beyond Congress, Carter predicted that the fate of his plan "will not be decided here in Washington, but in every town and every factory, in every home...
GASOLINE. The Government would set consumption targets providing for a gradual rise in usage until 1980, then a decline after 1982. If U.S. motorists in any year from 1978 on burn as much as 1% more gasoline than the target, then the next year they will have to pay a federal tax of 5? per gal.; the tax could rise to a maximum of 50? by 1989. Any money raised by the tax-and it could eventually be as much as $60 billion a year -would be returned, said the White House, not just to drivers but in equal amounts...
Yankelovich sees "the gradual evolution of a new implied contract between parents and their children." In his view, Traditionalists-the 57% of parents committed to stricter child rearing and older American values-implicitly say to their children, "We will sacrifice for you and be repaid by your success and sense of obligation." The New Breed message: "We will not sacrifice for you, because we have our own lives to lead. But when you are grown, you owe us nothing...