Word: homeland
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Ever since his meeting with U.S. Jewish leaders (TIME, July 18), Carter had softened his attitude toward Israel without technically changing his position. Example: lately there has not been any mention of a "homeland" for Palestinians but instead reference to a Palestinian region tied to Jordan. He obviously wanted to avoid a meeting with Begin that ended in open disagreement. Besides, recalling Carter's earlier disastrous encounter with Rabin, one official explained, "Carter must have realized that his tough attitude toward Rabin did not pay off. Instead of movement, he got Israel to dig in its heels. Carter must...
...parts that Begin knows best are the countless verses of the Old Testament that refer to the existence of Erets Yisrael (the land of Israel) and to God's promise of a homeland for his chosen people. But Scripture is less precise about what the boundaries of that homeland ought to be. One of the earliest references is Genesis 15: 18: "In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt [probably not the Nile, but the Wadi el Arish in the Sinai] unto...
Those concerns arose largely because Carter had appeared to shift ground in his Middle East policy. During the campaign, his stress was on help for Israel. As President, he has taken a sterner line, suggesting that Israel withdraw from almost all occupied territory and calling rather generally for a homeland for the Palestinians. At last week's meeting he said very little that he had not said before-somewhere, some time -though now the emphasis was back on help for Israel. Certainly that pleased his audience, but all those zigs and zags might lead to confusion later...
...Arabs would have to give Israel full diplomatic recognition, including provisions for trade and tourism (which the Arabs have always rejected in the past). His Administration, Carter added, will not draw a map setting boundaries. But to banish some of the Jewish fears about his call for a homeland for the Palestinians, he said that such a haven would have to be a part of Jordan; he did not favor a separate Palestinian state, which could be a threat to peace. A settlement, he stressed, cannot be imposed; it must be negotiated. During a time of crisis, however, there would...
Died. Dr. George Constantin Cotzias, 58, neurologist who developed the widely used L-dopa drug treatment for Parkinson's disease; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Greek-born Cotzias left his Nazi-occupied homeland in 1941 and came to the U.S. for medical training. In 1967 he found that the drug Levodihydroxyphenylalanine successfully countered the major chemical deficiency in the brains of Parkinson victims; the discovery led him to an understanding of the biochemical abnormalities underlying the disease. When he learned he had cancer in 1973, Cotzias expanded his research to that field as well...