Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dint of single-minded persistence, Carter's remote manner irritated Byrd. But after realizing that the majority leader's predictions of senatorial behavior were unerringly accurate, Carter began listening. He actively sought Byrd's advice on the Lance affair and accepted his judgment that the Budget Director had to go. Since the Lance ordeal, Carter and Byrd have become rather close...
...Senate the day of judgment is not expected until next March. In the meantime, many Senators are staying uncommitted and seem to resent the heavy pressures from both sides to make up their minds early. Their mail is overwhelmingly against the treaties, but much of it is in the form of identically worded postcards orchestrated by conservative mail-solicitation experts...
...vehemently that all of the many sharp criticisms of Lance's manipulations as a go-go Georgia banker had "been proven false and without foundation," Carter displayed a surprisingly irrational and stubborn refusal to face facts adverse to his friend and to his own reputation for cool judgment and high ethics...
Dayan seemed less amenable to compromise on another issue raised by Vance: the Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. The Foreign Minister rejected the American judgment that these settlements are obstacles to a peace agreement. Said he: "For us it is a matter of principle, of Jews being allowed to live anywhere in Eretz [Land of] Israel." Dayan added that his government would try not to be "provocative" about the settlements and insisted that Premier Menachem Begin was merely carrying out a policy created by previous Labor governments...
...Fahmy's judgment that the P.L.O. was eager for official talks with U.S. diplomats. This was borne out in Paris, where the P.L.O.'s de facto Foreign Minister, Farouk Kaddoumi, told TIME's Robert Kroon: "We will not object to going to Geneva as part of a single Arab delegation, provided we get separate invitations from the U.S. and Soviet cochairmen." One bar to P.L.O. participation is Washington's insistence that the organization endorse United Nations Resolution 242, which calls for "secure borders" for all nations in the area-an implicit recognition of Israel...