Word: solee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for the successful news blackout was that the Egyptians and Israelis agreed to allow Jody Powell to serve as the sole official outlet of information #151;surely one of the toughest assignments ever handed a White House press secretary. In his daily meetings with reporters inside the American Legion post at Thurmont, Md., six miles from Camp David, Powell kept his statements concise and skillfully avoided conveying anything substantive. He deflected questions about concessions on the part of Israel or Egypt by noting diplomatically: "There's been flexibility shown on both sides." To ensure that this modest observation...
...conclude that "no country in the world has a worse record in human rights than Iran." The Shah's instinctive dislike of democracy led him that same year to end the country's two-party system and establish the Rastakhiz (National Resurgence Party) as Iran's sole political organization...
...Egyptians and Israelis also agreed that White House Press Secretary Jody Powell would be the sole dispenser of information to journalists. Presiding over the single daily press briefing, Powell confined himself intentionally to what he called "rather innocent information" and even refused to acknowledge that negotiations were taking place; he would call them only "serious discussions." CBS's Robert Pierpoint apologized on the air: "We're doing our best with the material at hand, Walter, and maybe later the news will be better." NBC was reduced to opening one news broadcast with extensive closeup footage of a honey...
There are suspicions, however, that security is no longer Israel's sole reason for trying to hold on to the lands it conquered eleven years ago. The fiercely devout Begin has introduced a troubling religious factor into the argument by maintaining that events related in the Old Testament give Israel a historic claim to the West Bank. He even insists on calling the region by its Biblical names of Samaria and Judea. He declared to the Knesset: "We did not take strange land; we returned to our homeland. The tie between our nation and this land is eternal...
When Walker opened his consulting and lobbying firm in 1973, clients flocked to his plush offices near the White House. He does not act as sole lobbyist for any of them; instead, he concentrates on tax matters. Walker's prime concern now is a reduction in the capital gains tax to encourage new investment. Says he: "Inflation is simply a situation where too much money is chasing too few goods. So you produce more. How? More capital formation, more plant and equipment." He began preparing for the fight in 1975, when he became head of the Washington-based American...