Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about changing the wording of the label to "Donated by the labor force of the U.S."? They are the ones who help the donors amass a fortune so they can pursue their hobbies...
...cannot help finding it inconsistent, if not hypocritical, for the government of Israel to lobby so aggressively against the sale of F-15s to Saudi Arabia, while Israel has exported arms to a Marxist regime supported by the Russians and Cubans in Ethiopia...
...offset the effects of their defeat on the planes, Israeli officials were calling for action by Carter to get Sadat to reopen the peace talks, which were broken off in January. Insisted a senior Israeli diplomat: "Before the end of May, we have to have some dramatic gesture to help us. The Administration has to put the onus of peacemaking on the Egyptians and Saudis." Carter is not likely to go that far, but he is expected to take some action soon, perhaps this week. As a first step, he sent messages to Begin, Sadat and King Khalid of Saudi...
...organizations responded almost as one to oppose the package, many individual Jews were less certain. Some thought Israeli Premier Menachem Begin deserved to be pressured more by the U.S., that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's mission to Jerusalem rated a reward, that moderate Arabs like the Saudis could help achieve peace. More significantly, however, they were confused by the official Israeli position on the package. Neither Jerusalem nor the Israeli embassy in Washington flatly urged that the package be killed if it meant that Israel could not get the planes it wanted-until just a few days before...
...tones usually reserved for palace coups, expounded the virtues of NATO'S General Alexander Haig, former White House aide who held things together in the last days of Watergate. Almost every day, former Secretary of the Treasury Bill Simon gets letters offering, indeed pleading, to help finance a Simon candidacy. In Iowa, Governor Robert Ray stands at a staggering 82% approval with his electorate-and he balances the budget. Reporters press him with the big question. No, he says, he likes Iowa...