Word: responded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vance said earlier this week that his mission aimed at explaining to the "key Arab governments not represented at Camp David ... the contents, purpose and philosophy of the understandings reached ... so they can make their own decisions on how to respond to the invitations to them contained in the basic documents...
...operation of the plant, owned by the Swiss firm Givaudan of the Hoffmann-La Roche chemical and pharmaceutical group, was unsafe to begin with. Company officials waited 27 hours after the accident before notifying municipal officials of the danger. Even then, city and provincial administrators were slow to respond. In separate judicial actions, in fact, ten local officials face possible charges of dereliction of duty...
...latest furor was touched off by the Israeli Cabinet's decision to reject Sadat's proposal, informally made to Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman in Austria, that the Begin government respond to his Jerusalem peace initiative with a small gesture of good faith. Sadat had suggested that Israel return El Arish, the capital of the Sinai, and historic Mount Sinai, site of the Greek orthodox monastery of St. Catherine's. If El Arish were returned to Egyptian sovereignty, the President hinted, it could be used as the site for new peace talks. As for Mount Sinai, Sadat hoped...
...newsmen chose to protect their sources rather than respond in person to charges they dismissed as meritless. But the prosecutor used the trial to blast the "bourgeois" press for pouring "barrels of black paint on a foreign country." And the dissident in question, convicted Georgian Nationalist Zviad Gamsakhurdia, duly appeared in court, accompanied by two guards, viewed the film of his confession, and pronounced it undoctored...
Reversing the trend of recent years, the hawks now have control. Led by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and a hard-line group from Congress, they convinced Carter that he had to respond to the Soviets forcefully and with more than words. Russia's threatening energy shortage, they argued, combined with its growing dependence on American technology, meant that a ban on certain exports could win political concessions...