Word: offered
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...meantime, the Security Council meeting on the Palestinians had been rescheduled for last week. To avert a showdown there, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had devised a plan to offer the U.N. a more moderate U.S. resolution that would speak of the Palestinians' human rights but not their right to an independent state. They sent Special Envoy Robert Strauss flying off to the Middle East, under strict, sealed instructions signed by Carter, to explain this plan to Israel's Premier Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat. Finding them both...
...similar, private offer of negotiations last year, Hassan had arranged to meet secretly with Houari Boumedienne, but the Algerian President's fatal illness forced a cancellation. Now it is more difficult than ever to see the outline of a possible settlement. Algeria has little to lose by continuing to support the Polisario so long as its own troops are not involved and Libya continues to provide much of the rebels' financing. For its part, Morocco is clearly not willing to give up any of its annexed real estate peaceably. Besides his own irredentist impulse, Hassan also...
...State Department briefing, Young declared that he "didn't have much to offer in the way of advice" about what the U.S. should do in the Middle East; but he questioned the wisdom of the rigidity of U.S.-P.L.O. contacts. At one time, he said, we all thought "that the P.L.O. would go away. They have not gone away. They seemingly have increased in their political influence and potential economic strength. And I don't think it's in anybody's interest to ignore those kinds of forces...
...their feet an instrument case usually lies open. Listeners offer what they can-a few coins, flowers, a can of beer, a potato. A drunk once astonished a Boston musician by removing his trousers and donating them. Best of all are the "silent offerings" (noiseless folding green). The average take is $5 to $10 an hour, but talent and a good location can raise that to $30 or $40, and occasionally more...
Other potential candidates see a federal judgeship less as a prestigious and challenging job than as very hard work for low pay. Senator Charles Percy has privately remarked that he has had to offer, the job to ten people just to get one. Says U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Edward Allen Tamm: "Federal judges are working harder than they ever did in private practice, but they never get their heads above water." Worn down by the work load, comparing their salaries ($54,500 to $57,500) with the six-figure incomes of really successful lawyers, a discouraging number of federal...