Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this day, San Francisco bounces anachronistically on, retaining the feeling of community and the optimism that much of the rest of the country lost after Vietnam, Kent State and Nixon. But not even the warm, dark womb of the Bay Area could keep me from wanting to move on, to get out and see the world. I headed for Yosemite and points east...
...born-again presidency for Jimmy Carter. After months of discouraging setbacks, a steady decline in the polls and increasingly open disdain from members of his own party, the President was exuberantly on the move, roving from New Jersey to the Carolinas to the Middle West. Everywhere he went, crowds turned out and cheered him for his historic success at the Middle East summit talks at Camp David, and those ringing cheers were backed up by new polls that showed him making dramatic gains in the past week. According to a CBS survey, popular approval of his Administration climbed from...
FRIDAY. Americans decide to change tactics, avoid three-way meetings for a time. Carter meets Begin in afternoon. Carter meets Sadat in evening. Stalemate. Sadat tells Carter it's time for U.S. to make its move, if it has proposals of its own. Carter and aides begin to draft paper setting out key issues, with Egyptian and Israeli positions on each, plus U.S. alternatives. As evening begins, Israelis hold Shabbat dinner. Jimmy and Rosalynn attend, stay for two hours, drink Carmel wine, sing songs, including one from Fiddler on the Roof, which Carter likes be cause it keeps repeating "hallelujah...
...public even moderate Palestinians opposed the Camp David agreement. But in private, one West Bank political leader said last week: "Don't believe all the strong words you hear. If Hussein should become involved, we will move forward with the agreement." The trouble is that anyone who voices such sentiments publicly just now is inviting immediate retaliation by the P.L.O...
According to an official W.C.C. paper, the antiracism grants, admittedly token amounts, allow the council to "move beyond charity and involve itself in the redistribution of power." The anti-racist money, raised separately from regular W.C.C. dues, is earmarked for welfare purposes, not military spending, but the W.C.C. does not monitor its use. Opponents say the grants amount to a moral endorsement of terrorism. Even America's pro-ecumenical Christian Century editorialized that because the welfare grants merely free funds for war use, those backing the armed struggle in Rhodesia should be candid about their role as "vicarious doers...