Word: resister
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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...
...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...
...highway construction, federal aid to education, health research. There will be a freeze on federal hiring, and the number of federal employees will drop 20,000 by next October. Saturday mail deliveries may well be stopped. Carter, who had pledged in his January State of the Union message to resist any Soviet move into the Persian Gulf by military force if necessary, seemed to draw back even on his plans to raise defense spending. "The Defense Department will not be immune from budget austerity," he declared, but he said that the nation will meet its financial commitment to its NATO...
...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...