Word: israell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Third World country like Pakistan tries to advance its nuclear program [July 16], and all hell breaks loose in Washington and the U.S. media. Yet the two superpowers go on endlessly adding hundreds of weapons, costing billions of dollars, to their nuclear arsenals, but no eyebrows are raised. Israel carries on its own nuclear developments, but the press is not alarmed. Don't we have here a case of double standards...
...WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, former Senator: Anybody who takes issue with the government of Israel is taking his life in his own hands. The one man who has done this and written very well is George Ball. He has advocated an equitable or balanced policy toward Israel and her neighbors that I think is very constructive...
...credo: "If there is discrimination against anybody, there is discrimination against everybody." He has fought for the rights of American Nazis to speak and assemble, and successfully defended Actor Harry Reems, the lead in Deep Throat, against obscenity charges. Though a Jew and an ardent Zionist, Dershowitz has criticized Israel for establishing settlements on the West Bank. For that, he says, "my mother really gave me hell...
...would also cancel the country's $5.1 million debt to Israel and Argentina for arms purchased by Somoza...
...second of the six phased withdrawals prescribed by the pact. Israel ceded to Egypt a 2,500-sq.-mi. stretch of desert coastline and rugged inland mountains along the Gulf of Suez. According to the Israeli interpretation of the treaty, the hand-over was completed two months ahead of schedule, a reality that should have conveyed a sense of reciprocal good will. But, compared with the jubilation that accompanied Israel's pullback from El Arish in May, the ceremony this time was perfunctory. It was also overshadowed by a series of new Middle Eastern controversies and, most...