Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...control its own drinking water. Israel wants more borders than any other state in the world: defensible borders, historic borders, biblical borders, and now they want hydraulic borders. I say of Camp David, of autonomy, of self-rule, that we have rejected them. And we will continue to resist until we are able to live freely in our own homeland...
...first was educational. From hard, critical circumstances we have been able to create the highest literacy rate in the area. We did this from the refugee camps, out of our tragedy, our misery. The second was the transformation of our people from refugees to freedom fighters, able to resist for a just cause...
...small pine grove stands amid a series of fieldstone revetments. The mujahidin use the rocky enclosure to observe Afghan government convoys on the valley floor below; it is also a resting place for the bodies of five Soviet paratroopers killed there last January. Few of the insurgents can resist taking a ritual poke at the skulls. "This is what we do to Russians," Rebel Tribesman Shaler Seyed beams ferociously, hoisting a cranium into the air with a stick. "We will cut them all into little pieces...
...appraisal, the White House feels that Sadat has conformed to the spirit and the letter of the Camp David agreements far more than have the Israelis. Carter believes that Begin will have to make the major concessions for further accords. In turn, the Israeli leader is fully prepared to resist any attempt by Carter to pressure him into modifying his stands. Said a Begin aide: "The minimum we expect from the meeting is that there will be a clear-cut definition of where we stand in the autonomy negotiations. Beyond that, we look upon it as an opportunity to dramatize...
...discipline to enact even the modest spending cuts that the President proposes. On the other hand, there is the serious question of whether the President himself will have the discipline to resist the inevitable demands that he make this and that exception. "Discipline," of course, is a word that is most easily applied to other people. The Administration sought to win advance approval for its plan by consulting groups of Representatives and Senators from both parties, but the heaviest burden naturally fell on Carter's fellow Democrats, who control Congress. Meetings with them went on daily for the better...