Word: hoping
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...meaning of autonomy. The Israelis see self-rule for the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza as limited to local administrative matters. The Egyptians want the Palestinians to have broad judicial, executive and territorial rights. The final communique lamely predicted "an eventual agreement" and reiterated the hope that the West Bank Palestinians might soon join the autonomy talks...
...prominent West Bank mayors visiting Washington for a two-day conference on Palestinian rights scarcely encouraged that hope. Fahd Qawasmi of Hebron and Karim Khalaf of Ramallah told their American audience that Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza overwhelmingly support the P.L.O. "as our representative" and would refuse to deal with Israel until they regained sovereignty over their ancestral lands...
...amiable arrival ceremony, Deputy Foreign Minister Wang Youping, who headed the Chinese mission, smiled broadly as he shook hands with the chief Soviet negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Leonid llyichev. Wang expressed hope for "positive results" and, reviving an old bromide from the fraternal era before the Sino-Soviet schism began in 1959, declared that "the Chinese and Soviet people have built and developed a profound friendship over long years of common revolutionary struggle...
...COMING WEEK at Seabrook, the sanctity of private property rights must yield to the sanctity of human life. The occupiers will be unarmed and trained in nonviolence. We hope that the police will refrain from using their water hoses and attack dogs. And we hope a successful occupation will convince America to turn to a safer, saner energy future, one free of nuclear power...
Another aide, Jim Seymour, explained that at the present level of technology, there will be no hope of exploiting the rich tar sands of Alberta to such a degree that the Canadian federal government would allow exports to flow once again...