Word: mideast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time, the opposition takes control of the upper house of the Diet. -- Soviet President Gorbachev keeps his balance, but the waves are getting rougher. -- Mideast masters of double-talk flip-flop their rhetoric...
With neither major party anywhere close to a Knesset majority, Shamir holds the most cards in the game of coalition politics. For those who advocate a negotiated Mideast settlement, election results offer scant encouragement. -- Indian paratroopers thwart an invasion of mercenaries in the far- off Maldives. -- Sergei Khrushchev recounts the gripping tale of his father Nikita' s downfall...
...cannot back Israel's human rights violations, but we will not support cutting off aid. Such a move would leave. Israel vulnerable, and because Israel is America's only loyal democratic ally in the Mideast, it would ultimately leave the U.S. vulnerable, as well...
Labor supported Arab calls for an international peace conference and said it was ready to sacrifice land captured in the 1967 Mideast war for peace agreements...
...approach which stresses that both Palestinians and Israelis have equal rights to statehood and there must come a day when our government treats both peoples equally. Until that day, however, any claim that Question 5 is "one-sided" or "biased" against Israel, ignores the fact that America's Mideast policy is itself "one-sided" and "biased" in favor of Israel. Question 5 seeks to balance the scales...