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...independent Palestinian state on the West Bank with East Jerusalem as its capital, a plan that is as unacceptable to the U.S. as it is to Israel. But they did not flatly reject Reagan's plan, and phrases hi their proposal could be read as an implicit willingness to recognize Israel...
...upbeat." An additional reason for the Administration's speed-up in presenting its own plan was to influence Arab deliberations at the Fez summit. At best, the summit might have endorsed an eight-point plan advanced last year by King Fahd. While that plan contains an implicit recognition of Israel's right to exist, it also insists on an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Administration officials feared the summit would reject even that plan and take a strong pro-P.L.O. position. Says one: "We had to take the initiative before their positions congealed...
...purgatorial to the hellish. In a well-designed, progressive place like Michigan's Huron Valley Men's Facility, a five-year term is with luck just that: five years of life terribly circumscribed, with all but a few personal choices and pleasures denied. But in many other prisons, implicit in the same nominal term are five years of extortion and knives; bodies grabbed and ransacked; a sour, filthy cell shared for most of a day with a hothead who wouldn't mind killing again. The experience of a given prison is indiscriminate: the car thief endures the same...
During the years of heady economic growth during the '50s, '60s and early '70s, organized labor generally fulfilled an unwritten compact with its members by getting them more of everything. With the implicit partnership of employers, who often agreed to an expensive settlement rather than risk a painful strike, union leaders regularly won new contracts for the rank and file that guaranteed more pay, better benefits, improved working conditions and additional days...
First, it seemed inappropriate to send an official message to a foreign ambassador complaining about opposition from U.S. citizens in an essentially domestic dispute. Second, Watt's letter seemed to contain an implicit, cynical threat: if American dependence on Arab oil becomes too great, the U.S. might find it politically expedient to temper its support of Israel...