Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reaction is more favorable to Carter's Middle East policies. One out of two people questioned believe that Carter's moves will contribute eventually to a settlement, while 24% maintain that he has hurt the chances for peace. A majority (55%) are persuaded that the Carter Administration has been equally fair to Israelis and Arabs; 18% feel he has sided too much with Israel; 6% think he has favored the Arabs. But his sale of arms to Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia is disapproved by 49%. They believe it jeopardizes peace; 26% feel that it would encourage...
...could tell, she had been wearing a bra. Without settling whether a bra should be required, the court recommended that the Army pay $21,000 in retribution, unemployment benefits, court costs and taxes. The Army, in a tacit admission that the affair had grown out of proportion, accepted the settlement. "I don't know what the whole fuss is about," said Miss Nelson. "I never go without a brassiere. It's not my style...
...relations man with a bad case of leukemia. Scottie's one gift has been his ability to make people happy, and in his last days he tries to reconcile with the one person he has made miserable, his son, Jud (Robert Picardo), whom he abandoned in the divorce settlement. He amuses Jud with jokes and funny costumes, finds him a girl (Catherine Hicks), and smothers him with affection. But Jud, a 20-year-old fogy, refuses to shake the glad hand. "Mom said you once told Sonja Henie she was a great actress," he remarks...
...pack of police pursuers. (The penalty for helping an escapee was 25 years; the reward for catching one was a barrel of herring.) When the women prisoners who had survived the Kengir uprising were marched out of the camp at machine-gun point, jeering female inhabitants of the nearby settlement shouted "Dirty whores!" at them...
...reinforce this economically powerful, strategically vital but militarily vulnerable ally. A strong Saudi Arabia can help to stabilize the entire region?including Israel. For despite the anti-Zionist rhetoric that emanates sporadically from Riyadh, the Saudis are a strong moderating force in the Arab world, and no peace settlement will be possible without their tacit approval...