Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...APPARENT failure of the Kissinger diplomatic offensive in the Middle East will certainly renew and probably enhance Russia's eclipsed role in the region. The leftist forces may also emerge stronger from the debacle, especially if the radical Arab groups can discredit Sadat's and Saudi Arabia's policy while avoiding the appearance of being responsible for its failure. When confronted with such developments. US officials may be attracted to the intervention option as a way of recouping militarily diplomatic and political losses...
Complex questions were involved in Waldheim's effort to keep the 1,220-man force of Austrians, Iranians, Canadians and Poles on the Golan. Israel was willing to renew the mandate, but only on the same terms as the original mandate worked out by Kissinger in May 1974. Damascus made renewal of the mandate a cliffhanger by presenting some new - and to Israel, unacceptable - demands. Syria argued that any extension of the U.N. force should be tied to a Security Council decision on rights for the Palestinians and to a peace treaty, within six months, calling for Israeli withdrawal...
Interviewing President Hafez Assad in Damascus last week, TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager and Correspondent William Marmon asked the question on everyone's mind - would Syria renew the Golan Heights mandate? "No decision, no decision," answered a grinning Assad in English. Prager and Marmon found Assad visibly delighted by the suspense he had created over the situation. Otherwise, though, the Syrian President was thoughtful and straightforward as he sketched his views on the prospects for a Middle East peace settlement. Excerpts from the 2½-hour conversation...
...other part of the rescue package involves further loans from city and state banks and retirement funds. Banks are asked to roll over $500 million in city notes, and city pension funds would renew a similar amount. The pension funds would also buy another $2.5 billion in city securities over the next three years. Finally, city and state banks and pension funds would give up $2.4 billion in three-year MAC bonds yielding 12% interest in exchange for ten-year securities paying 6%. Once this is all done, the Federal Government would bridge the remaining gap with some form...
...federal version of the ERA that Congress passed in 1972 needs to be ratified by only four more states in order to become the 27th amendment to the Constitution. But the resounding defeat of ERA in New Jersey and New York has given anti-ERA groups new impetus to renew their efforts to prevent the passage of a federal equal rights amendment...