Word: pushed
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...because blacks have a better chance of winning a plurality in a multicandidate field than outpolling a white in a head-to-head race.) Gary Hart, who commands roughly 1,250 of the 3,933 delegates and is still under consideration for the second spot on the ticket, will push a plan advocating that the nation seek remedies other than the use of military force to resolve international conflicts; he will specifically mention the Persian Gulf. That will renew a primary debate in which Mondale successfully argued that the use of force, while never desirable, is sometimes unavoidable...
...Arab views on Middle East issues continue to bother many Jewish leaders. Nathan Perlmutter, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, noted that "Jesse Jackson's problem with Jews is bigger than Mr. Farrakhan." Indeed, on Saturday when Jackson addressed Operation PUSH, the Chicago-based civil rights organization he founded, Minister Akbar Muhammed, Farrakhan's chief lieutenant, was onstage, and dozens of members of the Nation of Islam were in the audience...
Reagan stood the memory of Scoop beside him on the world's stage ("one of the great Senators in our history"), and the two of them ("Let others push each chic new belief ...") marched as defenders of "the permanent against the merely prevalent...
...political clout, moreover, grew during the Begin years. In order to win the support of Agudat Yisrael, the religious party that had four sometimes crucial seats in the Knesset, Begin made several concessions. He forbade El Al flights on the Sabbath, losing an estimated $30 million a year, and pushed through a law limiting autopsies, which violate Orthodox beliefs. Begin also agreed to push the highly controversial "Who is a Jew?" legislation, which would amend Israeli law to ensure that the only converts granted citizenship are those who undergo Orthodox rites. Though the bill is not likely to pass...
...also trying to push the Saudis and the Kuwaitis closer together. Traditionally wary of its more conservative neighbor, Kuwait is now sharing intelligence with the Saudi air force: a hotline from Saudi ground-control systems immediately transmits information from the patrolling American AWACS radar planes. Kuwait could also be shielded from unfriendly fire by what amounts to a Saudi umbrella. Kuwait has no oil pipeline, and the Saudi shield could be vital in ensuring the safety of tankers and thus protecting the country's oil revenues, which constitute about half of its gross domestic product. To calm the apprehensions...