Word: prods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What effect, if any, all this may have on Israeli government policy cannot be predicted. U.S. officials cling to the hope that the horror may yet prod all sides in the Middle East to some new accommodation. But already it seems clear that the Begin government has lost the trust of the U.S. Administration, and at the moment has lost the trust of the U.S. people as well. Rebuilding this trust is an urgent task-and a necessity. - By George J. Church. Reported by Johanna McGeary and John F. Stacks/Washington
American policymakers, for their part, see a new chance to use the leverage that the Beirut crisis has given them to prod both sides toward the solution of a larger Middle East problem: the status of the Palestinians, who yearn for a homeland in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Under heavy pressure from Arabs and some Europeans, the U.S. is considering the possibility of negotiating directly with the P.L.O., in return for an open declaration by the P.L.O. that it recognizes Israel's right to exist as a state. The hope: that Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
...taken seriously. It provides that Congress each year adopt a budget plan under which total spending does not exceed total receipts. Once that is done, "Congress shall not pass and the President shall not sign any bill" that would push actual spending above the estimated totals. As a further prod to keep spending down, taxes could not increase as a proportion of national income unless Congress specifically voted to let this happen (on the other hand, a deficit could legally occur if tax collections fell below expectations). There are two other loopholes: 1) Congress could waive the balanced-budget requirement...
...message was not lost on Washington. Despite President Reagan's firm words of support for Britain in Westminster, the U.S. remains deeply concerned about the effects of the Falklands war on hemispheric, as well as NATO, unity. Behind the scenes, the U.S. was continuing to prod Britain to adopt a more flexible stance toward the future of the Falklands after a military victory. According to the British, one U.S. plan, reportedly floated last week by Washington Special Envoy Vernon Walters, offered a four-part solution: 1) British repossession of the Falklands to be followed by installation of a multinational...
...plans an unprecedented two-hour strike against Vatican City on June 14, just before the Pope leaves to address the International Labor Organization in Geneva. Their demands include a 20% pay increase, more generous child allowances and pensions and a 36-hour week. The workers hope the protest will prod the Pope, the microstate's absolute monarch, into resolving the dispute himself. If the Pope can settle an Italian labor quarrel, he will surely add to his reputation as a diplomatic miracle worker...