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...Egyptians fear, however, that Begin may be playing the same game: trying to stick Sadat with the onus of intransigence. A possible Israeli ploy, according to high Egyptian officials, would be to propose detailed and complicated negotiations that ignore the basic issue of Arab sovereignty over the occupied lands. If Sadat balked at participating in such talks, he might look irresponsibly stubborn. Yet such detailed talks could drag on indefinitely, allowing Jerusalem to tighten further its hold on the occupied territories by building or expanding Israeli settlements there...
...Remembering his adamant stand against abortion and birth control, his refusal to modify the centuries-old requirement of priestly celibacy, and his opposition to the ordination of women priests, Church liberals had for years labelled him a reactionary, an impediment to the progress of faith. Upon him fell the onus of "losing" the millions of Catholics who drifted away from the Church in the late '60s; alarmed clerics called for his abdication, and a ghoulish speculation over the state of his health, and the betting line on his successors, dominated much of the Catholic press. Let us pray...
...planes, Israeli officials were calling for action by Carter to get Sadat to reopen the peace talks, which were broken off in January. Insisted a senior Israeli diplomat: "Before the end of May, we have to have some dramatic gesture to help us. The Administration has to put the onus of peacemaking on the Egyptians and Saudis." Carter is not likely to go that far, but he is expected to take some action soon, perhaps this week. As a first step, he sent messages to Begin, Sadat and King Khalid of Saudi Arabia saying that now is the time...
...bargaining with the union throughout the winter; it is only since the huge mountains of coal that surrounded the electrical and steel producers in December melted to tiny hillocks in March that the BCOA has made an attempt to bargain in good faith. It is clear that the onus of the strike rests with the operators and not the miners, most of whom experienced a bleak Christmas in a strike that began last December...
...hobbies), Toffler, on the pretense of responding to a question, rose and delivered a deadly serious warning to the 100 or so people who had come to the Science Center to hear him speak. With perfect elocution and rising intensity, Toffler beseecned the audience to help bear the onus of making sure society survives a potentially internecine technological revolution. He admitted that his predictions of apocalypse could be wrong--if so, he said, he would not be the first prophet to miscalculate--but working on the assumption that lack of foresight would have devastating world-wide repercussions, Toffler said...