Word: holding
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Reagan lost a longtime aide last month when Lyn Nofziger resigned, but the Reagan staff still appears to be quite strong. Campaign Manager John Sears is building a national organization and concentrating on those "first wave" states that will hold primaries or caucuses before April 1. The goal of Finance Director Michael Deaver is to raise a $12 million campaign fund by June...
...intend to have more people than the jails of New Hampshire can hold," Brian Tokar, a member of the Boston group said...
...line states, whose populations, border areas, and economics have been ravaged by the war, would also welcome peace, but politically they have too much at stake to end the war for a shabby settlement. The present Zimbabwe constitution--in which whites control the courts, military, police and civil service, hold enough guaranteed parliamentary seats to block constitutional changes, and receive an even more disproportionate share of seats in the Cabinet--must be totally overhauled. (A constitutional solution acceptable to the front-line states would undoubtedly bring prizes of recognition and trade, and the lifting of United Nations economic sanctions...
...which is as unacceptable to Jordan as it is to the Palestinians or the PLO; secondly, the acceptance of such a solution by the West Bank leaders. While the PLO has few military cards, it has decisive assets when it comes to a political solution, largely because of its hold over the West Bank population, and because of its capacity, if kept aside, to make trouble for all the Arab states other than Egypt--something Syria has already experienced...
Eliav, who served in the Jewish underground from 1936-40 and later smuggled refugees out of Europe, says he understands why many of his countrymen want to hold on to the West Bank. "Jews in general have a right to traumas. They have been through seven wars and the Holocaust, and suspicions run very, very deep...