Word: proceeds
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...week. Their freedom was obtained without any yielding on the captors' principal demand: release of 17 terrorists being held in Kuwait on charges of dynamiting the U.S. and French embassies. In a statement announcing that they were letting Jacobsen go, his captors, Islamic Jihad, mysteriously urged the U.S. to "proceed with current approaches that could lead, if continued, to a solution of the hostages issue." Washington at the time vehemently denied that it had made any "approaches," to Iran or anyone else...
Israelis like the National Unity Government. Despite Peres' great popularity, the public wanted to see the rotation proceed. The coalition lasted because there was never enough reason to bring it down (only the start of peace negotiations could have done that). The same is likely true for the next two years. Labor has no interest in calling for early elections unless the results would be better than the last time. It can't afford responsibility for what would be seen as an opportunistic move...
Islamic Jihad said in a statement issued after Jacobsen's release: "We hold the American government fully responsible for the consequences of any failure to take advantage of this opportunity and proceed with current approaches that could lead, if continued, to a solution of the hostages...
...Americans feel about the outcome of the Reykjavik summit? Do they think the U.S. should proceed with full development of the Strategic Defense Initiative, or that sdi should be used as a bargaining chip? To find out, TIME commissioned a poll of 806 Americans by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. The survey was conducted by telephone last Wednesday, and has a potential sampling error of plus or minus 4%. Summit questions were asked of the 62% who reported following the issue in the news. Some of the findings...
...should at the very earliest destroy its last missiles only when it completes tests on a defense system and prepare for deployment. Gorbachev's insistence in Iceland that testing not proceed on the one comprehensive defense system currently being researched by the U.S. is unacceptable, because the gap between laboratory research and actual deployment would certainly be great enough to allow the Soviets or a crazed dictator to render this nation completely helpless...