Word: sabbaths
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...talks will not be slowed by the need for translation; Begin and Sadat speak excellent English. But one problem, in this gathering of a Muslim, Jew and Christian, is that their Sabbaths occur on different days?Friday, Saturday and Sunday respectively. This cuts considerably into negotiating time. While Carter will be ready to resume his diplomatic labors after Sunday-morning church services. Begin will not participate in talks from sundown Friday through sundown Saturday. It is uncertain how Sadat will observe his Sabbath, but White House officials hope he does not want to go into Washington to pray...
...compromise bill, designed to tighten the exemption loophole, would require women seeking exemptions to declare that they do not travel on the Sabbath and strictly observe Jewish dietary laws. Although the girls will no longer have to pass examinations, they will face stiff penalties if discovered to have made false declarations. A girl found lolling on a beach on the Sabbath, for example, will be Liable to serve a term in prison, to be followed by regular army service...
...central well. In Jewish settlements that dot the sun-drenched landscape, youths in jeans and yarmulkes dance the hora after school is let out. Their parents leave guns at the door when they gather at the community center-surrounded, as often as not, by barbed wire and sandbags-for Sabbath prayer...
...most of the estimated 3.8 million Palestinians dispersed around the world. Even in what a majority of Palestinians regard as the heart of their lost homeland, the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the Jordan River, Palestinian schoolchildren defied Israeli orders against political demonstrations by parading in tribute to the Sabbath terrorists and against the Begin regime's incursion into Lebanon. Says Mahmud Abu Zalaf, 53, editor of the West Bank Arabic newspaper El Kuds: "These attacks and counterattacks will go on until we get at the roots of the problem...
...clear that his attitude toward the return of the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River had, if possible, hardened even further. A Palestinian state there, he declared, "would be a mortal danger to our people and to our country." Moreover, the question arose of just what effect the Sabbath massacre would have on world and U.S. attitudes toward Israel's bargaining stance...