Word: problem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some Air Force hardliners, still smarting from the B-l experience, have insinuated that the J.C.S. chairmanship was the reward Jones got for going along with the White House. To be sure, Carter, like most Presidents, prizes team players. But the main element in Jones' selection was the problem-solving managerial talent that he had demonstrated during his four years as head of the Air Force and prior to that as commander in chief...
...Jordan alone in trying to change the direction of recent arguments about black-Jewish relations, a problem that surfaced after the resignation of U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young following secret contact with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, sent a statement last week to the N.A.A.C.P.'s 1,700 U.S. branches urging that "our historic close working relationships with the American Jewish community" be maintained and strengthened...
...unusually candid TV interview, Dayan stated his own version of the type of policy Israel must follow if it wants progress on the Palestinian problem: a unilateral withdrawal of Israeli military government authorities from the West Bank and an evacuation of Israeli military forces from Arab population centers. Dayan proposed that the responsibility for municipal issues be transferred to local Palestinian councils even before the autonomy talks are concluded. That was clearly not a policy that appeals to Menachem Begin or the hawks in his Cabinet and so Dayan walked...
...essential problem, as the Saudi Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani admitted during a visit to Washington last week, is that OPEC has "lost control" of price levels. It is now up to the oil-consuming nations to limit price increases by curbing demand. Yamani's point is well taken. The only reason that Libya and Iran have been able to lift prices so much so soon is that, despite an international agreement earlier this year to curb imports, demand for oil continues to grow at a time when Iran's internal problems and lack of technical expertise threaten...
Just when Harvard officials though they had the radioactive waste problem licked this week, another governor shot holes in their latest plan...