Word: mutually
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...fact, "friend" is the wrong word, since the British and the Americans are essentially the same people. What they have in common is fundamental characteristics, not merely the results of mutual influence. For one thing, both countries are exuberantly naive. Each wholeheartedly believes that meaning well excuses everything, including empire building, and each is usually dumbfounded to discover that not everyone else in the world agrees...
...current U.S. policy toward South Africa. Under the [Carter Administration], things went wrong because it tried to pressure us. We were shouted at. President Reagan adopted a different attitude. He said he was prepared to talk to South Africa in a decent way, with mutual respect. We're a small but very proud nation, and we believe that this is the correct approach...
Says British Bookman Sir William Rees-Mogg, a former London Times editor: "Rare books make rich men wise and wise men rich." So rich that the venerable London firm of Francis Edwards now advocates a kind of leather-bound mutual fund. For a minimum of $1,000-plus a 2% storage commission-Edwards assembles a "portfolio" of rare books, often unseen by the investor, to be sold later for profit. A typical $10,000 Edwards holding might include such items as The Journals of Captain Cook ($200), Kipling's Kim ($80) and Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman...
Within Israel, policies of compromise and mutual recognition find support from Yossi Sarid, Shulamit Aloni, Victor Shemtov, and others in the Kuesset; their sentiments are shared by prominent persons such as Mattiyahu Peled, Lova Eliav and Un Avneri outside the government. On the Palestinian side, the voices are fewer and their position is more precarious, but a moderate trend is unmistakable. Dr. Issam Sartawi, Sabri Jiryis and Abu Mazim have held talks with Israeli Zionists: Palestinian Universities to find a peaceful alternative to Begin's handling of the situation in the occupied territories. American influence could be instrumental in helping...
...SEMANTICS OF MUTUAL or implicit recognition, however, do not hold out the prospects of an eventual and enduring settlement. That must be achieved by genuine compromise--Israel must retreat from its stubborn West Bank policy and the PLO must back down from maximalism. Neither the status quo which Begin supports nor the status quo ante which the PLO trumpets has much grounding in the reality or the ideal of pace...