Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visited last week. He urged Israel to sign the interim agreement with Egypt "even if signing it is as risky as rejecting it." He has strongly opposed the proposed sale of antiaircraft missiles to Jordan. In place of what he calls "complex, exotic, often unreliable new hardware," he would prefer a "lean, tough, defensive force...
...show time in Helsinki. This week's summit spectacular might be titled Goodbye to World War II. Others thought of it as Dreams of Détente. Still others would prefer to call it Much Ado About Nothing, The Grand Illusion or perhaps even The Decline of the West. A few days before the show opened, the conference received some bad reviews from critics who labeled it The Betrayal of Eastern Europe. But fortunately they will not be present at the première to put a damper on the show...
...item on the Assembly's agenda will be an Arab-sponsored move by the Third World bloc to suspend Israel from Assembly debates because of its refusal to obey U.N. resolutions ordering Jerusalem to surrender occupied Arab territory in return for secure borders. Many Israelis would prefer to await the outcome of that vote before agreeing to accept another Sinai disengagement...
...mugging; hating whites and not being too smart." This definition of blackness, say the authors, can lead to "absolute terror" and conflict in those black teens "who would like to have friendships with blacks or whites, who enjoy Beethoven as much as Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul, who prefer algebra to basketball...
Many Democrats prefer a $7.50 price ceiling on all U.S. oil, both new and presently controlled, but they almost surely cannot pass such a bill over an inevitable presidential veto. That leaves the possibility of a straight extension of price controls-perhaps for six months-but Administration aides warn that Ford might veto that too, because he believes controls only discourage domestic output and keep the U.S. dependent on OPEC...