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Although there is no chance that the council will heed Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's suggestion that it formally concede Israel's right to exist, the Palestinians now realize they risk losing the support of oil-rich Arab states if they do not soften their position. Wearing his usual cartridge belt and revolver, an unshaven Arafat outlined his opinions in an interview with TIME'S Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart and Correspondent Wilton Wynn in Beirut before taking off for the Afro-Arab summit in Cairo. Excerpts from the interview...
...sees the conference opening without the P.L.O. but with the implicit understanding that the delegates would devise a formula allowing eventual P.L.O. participation. Before leaving, Vance endorsed the "legitimate interests of the Palestinian people." U.S. support of these interests almost certainly depends on the willingness of the P.L.O. to soften its stand toward Israel, for Vance has warned that "it is difficult to see how progress can be made" so long as the P.L.O. refuses formally to recognize Israel's right to exist...
Surprised Senators tried clumsily to soften the blow. Utah Republican Jake Garn assured Sorensen that his integrity had not been in question. Said the Senator: "I thought you were the wrong man for the wrong position." Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh told Sorensen that some people were out to get him "because they don't want a clean broom at the CIA." Senator George McGovern emerged from the audience to remark that the episode showed that the "ghost of Joe McCarthy still stalks the land." Committee Chairman Dan Inouye, who opposed the nomination, said that he hoped Sorensen would leave...
...frozen, starved and exhausted by her dauntless husband, she may cry out like a trapped and beaten Kate. In recent years she has been played as an ironic Kate, addressing her last speech, on the submission of wives, directly to the audience as a private joke. Or she may soften, ending up as a loved and loving Kate who has deftly fashioned a new self-image. She may be any of these things--and, in the best productions, is probably all-but she must be a Kate who reveals her capacity for change as well as she conceals...
...turned briskly into the Jimmy Carter storefront office in downtown Indianapolis last week. For months he had traveled around the country trying to sign up voters. It had been discouraging: only a few volunteers ever showed up, and there was rarely enough money for buttons and bumper stickers to soften up a sullen public...