Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Acknowledging that his intimate personal participation in the peace process had also risked "the prestige of the U.S.," the President stressed that "the efforts would have been worth making regardless of the outcome. In war, we offer our very lives as a matter of routine. We must be no less daring, no less steadfast, in the pursuit of peace...
After the Knesset adjourned, the Israeli Cabinet Committee for Security and Foreign Affairs took up the treaty. It could find no way of breaking the deadlock. Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, though exhausted by the protracted negotiations, pleaded that both sides must keep trying. Said he: "We can't let the President leave in this spirit. The U.S. is the most important ally we have. We have to reopen the door for further negotiations." To which Begin retorted: "It is up to the Americans to decide whether they are leaving or staying...
...unofficial predictions as high as $15 billion had been published. The President's approximations were apparently based solely on the basic commitments he had made to carry out the treaty terms. They include paying part of the cost of moving military equipment from two major airbases that Israel must abandon in the Sinai and establishing similar bases within Israel in the Negev desert. A U.S. survey team estimated the cost at $1 billion, and Israel has predicted that $3 billion more would be required to make the new bases operational...
...Sadat flies to Jerusalem and tells the Knesset that Egypt is ready to make peace but Israel must return Arab lands...
...received fewer benefits, often on the excuse that they might become pregnant. Glenna Lehtonen, now a housewife with two babies in East Templeton, Mass., was one of the three women whose successful suit against Massachusetts Electric established that under the state ERA, pregnancy is just another biological contingency that must be included in routine disability plans. So far, Mrs. Lehtonen's cash award for several pregnancy-related illnesses has been only $97. The court decision in her case, however, grants rights that the U.S. Supreme Court, without an ERA, had refused in a similar case...