Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lance from going under could cost President Carter dearly in terms of personal support and in backing for his ambitious legislative program and foreign policy initiatives. What remained unclear, however, was whether the President's determined support stemmed from loyalty, from resentment at being subjected to criticism (even indirect criticism) from an outright conviction that an old friend and lieutenant was being pilloried, or from a combination of all of these factors...
...commitment with subtle but unmistakable overtures to the Palestinians. Responding to the President's initiative, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd recently got Arafat to send Carter a message pledging Palestinian moderation; Fahd himself delivered it during his White House visit in May. Carter has continued the indirect dialogue: in an interview with TIME earlier this month, he reiterated his position urging the P.L.O. to accept the United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for recognition of Israel's existence in exchange for the return of Arab territory...
...learn as he put it, "how to crack the hard nuts that have to be cracked So last week Vance flew in and it of the familiar way stations of Middle Eastern diplomacy-Alexandria Beirut, Damascus ... En route he heard a revised and promising version of a formula for indirect negotiations between Israel and the Arabs-but in almost no time at all the region's quarreling states proved that this solution would not be acceptable. Thus by week's end, with his eleven-day trip mostly over, all that the top U .S. envoy could say with...
Doesn't this show where the student priorities are and, if so, isn't it all a bit perverted? One hundred-sixty students march to eat a hot meal, feeling Dean Fox is oppressing them and overstepping their rights, while they shun away from issues involving the University's indirect support of some of the world's most oppressive regimes. This is outrageous, but it certainly doesn't show that students are outraged by Harvard's investment policies...
However, the most controversial proposal made in this section of the report--that the current Faculty legislation setting a quota for senior faculty participation in department tutorials be rescinded--received only indirect approval...