Word: israels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long before preconceptions begin to fall away -some of them to be later picked up, dusted off and restored to use. The assembled scholars are classics professors, archaeologists, Shakespeareans, graphic artists, historians and musicians flown in from Norway, Israel, England, Canada, France, India and West Germany, as well as from the U.S. Most of them no longer consider themselves to be innovators merely because they work with computers. These days money does not invariably fall out of academia's apple trees when the word computer appears in grant proposals. So says Stephen V.F. Waite, a research associate in computing...
...balk on the timetable, which now calls for the return of the areas containing the oil wells by next November. Explained an Egyptian member of the autonomy committee: "If we can establish the sense of permanence and stability we have today in the bilateral relations between Egypt and Israel, then we can do the same with autonomy...
...health is indeed precarious: now 66, he has survived a heart attack, and is still recovering from a mild stroke he suffered last July, Worries over Begin's well-being could be an important factor in Sadat's determination to move forward on the peace agreement with Israel as soon as possible. His health is also a matter of increasing concern to Israelis, who wonder how long the ailing Premier can remain in office...
...precisely because autonomy (rather than perpetuating Israel's grip over the West Bank and Gaza while alleviating the costs and load of occupation, as Begin seems to hope) may lead either to a dead end, or to a destination unwelcome to most Israelis, that Israel's Labor Party and many Americans still hope for a "Jordanian solution." But Hussein seems reluctant to risk compromising his kingdom's stability by imposing his rule on Palestinians who, after 12 years under Israeli occupation, appear eager for an entity of their...
...Jordanian solution" would require, first, a willingness of Israel to give up the Labor Party's notion of partition of the West Bank, which is as unacceptable to Jordan as it is to the Palestinians or the PLO; secondly, the acceptance of such a solution by the West Bank leaders. While the PLO has few military cards, it has decisive assets when it comes to a political solution, largely because of its hold over the West Bank population, and because of its capacity, if kept aside, to make trouble for all the Arab states other than Egypt--something Syria...