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After a long year of keeping his political distance from Carter, Byrd plunged into the treaty battle. At his urging, Carter and Torrijos issued a joint statement clarifying two points in the treaties: that the U.S. would permanently retain the right to defend the waterway's neutrality, and that in an emergency U.S. Navy vessels would "go to the head of the line" through the canal...
...efforts in 1972 to enable a chain of California trade schools to retain its accreditation with the U.S. Office of Education and thus continue to qualify for federal funds. Flood's former administrative assistant, Stephen Elko, admitted receiving a $15,000 kickback from the schools, and was convicted in Los Angeles last fall of bribery, perjury and obstruction of justice. Elko claimed that he received $25,000 in hush money from Flood's friends. But in exchange for a reduced sentence, Elko agreed to provide evidence against his former boss. According to Elko's account, Flood received...
...dates from the 1950s (if not, as some Israelis note, from the days of King Solomon's celebrated dalliance with the Queen of Sheba). The friendship is maintained today because predominantly Christian Ethiopia remains the only non-Arab power in the area, and the Israelis are hoping to retain a foothold there...
...talks the delegates narrowed the gap toward a Sinai settlement. The Egyptians reportedly suggested that the Israelis could keep their settlements in the Rafah salient of the northern Sinai for a limited time (the exact period to be decided later), as part of a U.N. buffer zone, and retain their settlements along the Gulf of Aqaba?but only under Egyptian rule, as Cairo's "welcome guests." More important, the Egyptians seemed ready to allow Israel to keep its big military airbase at Etzion and continue using the military airbase at Eitam as a civilian airfield. Weizman took the proposals home...
Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General, urging young people to retain their idealism: "If you have to choose between being Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, for heaven's sake...