Word: moratoriums
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...University's announcement of its plans to build this laboratory more than two years ago sparked a bitter dispute over the safety of recombinant DNA research, resulting in a temporary moratorium on all such research in Cambridge in the spring...
...about Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Washington insisted that the Premier had promised there would be no new settlements for five years-the transitional period during which Palestinians will begin to enjoy a period of limited self-rule. Begin, however, insisted that he had pledged to maintain the moratorium on the settlements for only three months. In tacit agreement that it was far better to get on with the peace process, neither Washington nor Jerusalem last week tried to trumpet the differences in viewpoint...
...there are two problems. One is that for the time being this "framework" is just words. The other is that Begin has already begun to re-interpret several major concessions--on the moratorium on West Bank settlements, and on Israeli military withdrawal from the West Bank--in a way that gives reason to wonder whether it will ever be more than words. It is therefore legitimate for the Arab states to be keeping their distance from the Camp David agreements, at least until they hear spelled out in more detail what the specifics of the West Bank negotiations...
...transition period while the Israelis and Arabs negotiate the future of the West Bank. Not so, said Begin. The only "negotiations" he had in mind were the three-month talks scheduled to lead to a peace treaty with Egypt. He had never, he insisted, made any commitment for a moratorium longer than that...
...first difficulties came from Israel's Premier Menachem Begin, who almost immediately began raising objections to what Vance had thought was an agreed-upon moratorium on new Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Next, both Jordan and Saudi Arabia, whose support is crucial to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, openly criticized the Camp David agreements. Other protests arose like a sandstorm, not only from such radical states as Libya, South Yemen and Algeria, and, of course, the Palestine Liberation Organization, but also from Syria and such moderate and normally friendly states as Bahrain, Qatar, North Yemen, Kuwait...