Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...Friday afternoon, McHenry had persuaded other members of the Security Council to delete the paragraph on religious freedom. In telephone talks with Vance, McHenry was advised to seek a postponement of the vote until Saturday, which would provide more time to get Carter's approval of an affirmative U.S. stand. McHenry got the delay...
...main punch is in para graphs six and seven. The sixth paragraph "calls upon the Government and people of Israel to ... dismantle the existing settlements and in particular to cease, on an urgent basis, the establishment, construction and planning of settlements in the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem." The seventh paragraph "Calls upon all States not to provide Israel with any assistance to be used specifically in connection with settlements in the occupied territories...