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...President had three reservations. First, he directed Vance to tell McHenry to abstain unless the council deleted an offensive paragraph calling on Israel to guarantee religious freedom in Jerusalem-falsely implying that Israel was not now doing so. Second, Carter said that the U.S. could accept the most controversial paragraph, demanding the dismantling of all Israeli settlements, but only if McHenry expressed U.S. reservations about the wording after the vote. To many diplomats, that seemed an odd, unprofessional way of trying to soften a U.S. stand...
...references to Jerusalem must be excised from the text before the U.S. could approve it. Yet Carter did not emphasize that he literally meant every reference to Jerusalem. According to Vance's aides, the Secretary thought Carter was adamant only about removing what they termed "the obnoxious paragraph" on religious freedom in Jerusalem...
Voting on the resolution was scheduled for Friday night. There was no lack of clarity in Vance's postbreakfast instructions to McHenry: the U.S. would abstain unless McHenry got the offensive paragraph removed, and he must later make the oral reservation about the dismantling demand. Vance did not tell McHenry that every reference to Jerusalem...
When Ted Kennedy proposed wage and price controls he issued a two-paragraph explanation of how he would "announce a freeze" that would last from four to six months, and "during that time we would put into place other programs such as gasoline rationing . . ." But "announcing" and "putting," so casually stated by the Senator, would be in today's world like moving mountains. John Anderson is an evangelist for "the power of ideas," of which he has many, like the 50? gasoline tax to reduce consumption and ease other tax burdens. But Anderson's determined advocacy of ideas...
...final observation, on another topic, regarding the excellent "Silhouette" of William Burroughs by Paul Attanasio (Feb. 1. pg. 2): In paragraph 2, The Crimson prepetuates a widely-repeated misnomer by referring to the Moroccan city of "Tangiers." It is Algiers, with an "s" that is the captial of Algeria. The singular TANGIER (no "s") is where Burroughs lived and wrote for many years. In French, the city is "Tanger" (tawn-JAY); the city was named by ancient Phoenicians, as something like "Tahn-ja," which is how many contemporary Arabic-or better Berber-speaking Moroccans refer...