Word: offerred
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Although Sadat was willing to agree to something less than an independent Palestinian state, he insisted that the possibility of such a state existing in the future could not be ruled out. He linked Egypt's offer to sign a full peace settlement to Israeli treaties with Syria and Jordan, which have refused to join the negotiations; these two points, as well as the proposed reliance on U.N. forces, may not meet easy acceptance within Israel, but the proposal did lead one U.S. Senator who is normally pro-Israel to remark: "If I were Begin, I'd sign...
Even before the Tory leader spoke out, another Gallup poll showed that 59% of the British public felt that immigrants were "a very serious social problem in Britain today." To 46%, race relations were getting worse, while 49% wanted the government to offer immigrants financial help to leave the country. Unquestionably Mrs. Thatcher had seized an issue of particular appeal to traditionally Labor blue-collar workers, who see the immigrants as a threat to their jobs, and to a large segment of the British public who resent the intrusion of a different culture...
...Guatemala, voters will go to the polls on March 5 to select a successor to General Kjell Eugenio Laugerud, 48, a take-charge officer who has run the country since 1974. The election will offer limited choices. Besides General Ricardo Peralta Mendez, who directed reconstruction after the country's savage 1976 earthquake and is the candidate of the powerful Christian Democratic Party, the field includes one other general and a colonel...
...sense of growth in Andy would give the film a little more resonance than that of a well-made sitcom. It has good gags, and expert performances by Gene Saks as a dyspeptic manager and by Hervé Villechaize as a midget wrestler who refuses to think small. They offer intimations of a picture that might have been memorable instead of merely inoffensive...
...ARGUMENTS THAT the members of Harvard's power elite offer to justify secrecy bear a remarkable similarity to those arguments proffered by politicians who tried to keep legislative committee meetings closed to the public. But just as American taxpayers have demanded the right to know how their taxes are being spent, so Harvard students and their parents should have some knowledge about where their money is going. CUE meetings should not be closed to reporters on campus newspapers...