Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international peace-keeping forces under U.N. supervision in Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights-which Israel and the Arabs could monitor. In addition, Israel and the U.S. would negotiate a treaty, comparable to the mutual defense pact with Japan or NATO, that would pledge Washington to move to Israel's defense in case of attack. Arab states, which worry about Israel's military power, might want-and should receive-similar assurances from Washington in case they were subjected to a surprise assault...
...black moderates sounded surprised and pleased. A spokesman for Sithole called the announcement a "decisive move" that paved the way for blacks and whites to "sit down together and work out a blueprint for Zimbabwe," the African name for Rhodesia. Jeremiah Chirau, the head of a group of tribal leaders, declared that "an end to terrorism must be in sight." Most important of all was the reaction of Bishop Muzorewa, probably the most popular of Rhodesia's black politicians. Addressing a rally of his African National Council's youth wing in Salisbury, Muzorewa said he was willing...
Neither London nor Washington was anxious to dismiss Smith's latest move out-of-hand. Diplomats in both capitals, however, believe that any settlement, if it is to succeed, must include participation by the groups that have been doing the fighting. As one U.S. official put it, Smith's attempt to bar the Patriotic Front "is like holding elections in South Viet Nam without the Viet Cong." Declared Nkomo angrily from his base in Zambia: "As far as we are concerned, the war continues...
...long been controlled by U.S. Senators and state politics. But U.S. circuit courts usually cover several states, and appointments to them have less often been the absolute preserve of a Senator or Representative. So when Carter set up 13 panels around the country to pick appellate judges, the move to reward merit seemed likely to succeed...
...drool on a stag's jaws, was allegorist and history painter as well as factual witness; and there he could be very puzzling indeed. The debate on Courbet has been stepped up by a magnificent retrospective that opened this fall at the Grand Palais in Paris and will move to London in January. With a catalogue by Art Historian Helene Toussaint, it brings together more than 140 paintings and drawings, centered around the huge machines that normally hang in the Louvre: A Burial at Ornans and (all 11½ ft. by 19 ft. of it) The Painter...