Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member nations of the Arab League gathered in Cairo, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, insisted that his country will back every effort to set up a Palestinian state on the West Bank and in Gaza. The Arab states, he said, will push for a United Nations resolution-which almost certainly will pass-condemning Israel's "expansionist" policy of creating new Jewish settlements on the West Bank. The hardening stance on both sides does not bode well for President Carter's talks later this month with foreign ministers of the Arab states and Israel...
...effort this year. Britain's trades unions are pressing Prime Minister James Callaghan for a large "catchup" pay boost and a major expansion program to create jobs. Even wealthy West Germany, which has sorely disappointed the rest of Europe (as well as the Carter Administration) by failing to push very hard on its crucial economic accelerator, may finally be getting ready to apply the gas. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, worried by new forecasts that set West German growth this year at 3.5% to 4% (v. his own target of 5% last May), is in the midst of a full-scale...
...deregulation push has split the scheduled airlines into two warring camps. Certain carriers, notably United, whose fleet of 364 planes is the nation's largest, believe they could survive and benefit from the new competition that would come if Washington threw the airline business open to any and all who wanted to enter it. But most other lines, including Eastern, are bitterly opposed. Eastern's Borman believes opening up airline service to all comers would mean "wasteful capacity wars" that would benefit the largest, strongest carriers-like United-which could expand into new routes now denied them...
...American soccer and helped lure to the U.S. such international stars as Giorgio Chinaglia and Franz Beckenbauer of the Cosmos and George Best of the Los Angeles Aztecs. Attendance figures soared wherever Pelé and the Cosmos played, and his very presence in a league city was enough to push soccer to the top of local sports pages...
Chicago is on the verge of a racial explosion," declares the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose Operation PUSH is pushing for better education. "Busing means the destruction of our neighborhoods, and we're going to fight for our survival," replies Housewife Connie Schaefer, president of the Bogan community council, which represents the largely blue-collar Bogan-Marquette Park areas, one of the last all-white enclaves on Chicago's Southwest Side...