Word: statement
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With the Swedish government acting as a go-between, the U.S. group traveled to the Scandinavian capital to seek clarification of the resolutions adopted in Algiers last month by the P.L.O.'s parliament, the Palestine National Council (P.N.C.). Those statements were widely regarded as a positive but still ambiguous step forward. Arafat responded by endorsing yet another four- point statement, this one hammered out with the Jewish leaders. It stated clearly that the P.L.O. agreed to negotiations on the basis of U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338, "accepted the existence of Israel," rejected terrorism and called for a solution...
...London the British Foreign Office cautiously decided that the Stockholm statement "confirms our earlier view that the P.L.O. are moving forward." Israeli leaders totally dismissed Arafat's actions. Secretary of State George Shultz said he welcomed the clarification but the P.L.O. still had "a considerable distance...
...warn against the application of strict faculty affirmative-action policies." I said that there were two purposes to affirmative action: to eliminate discrimination or to ensure representation. I said that the Committee needed to establish, as a ground, a clear statement of principles. And I said that representation was not the principle to be adopted in seeking faculty...
...consultations were in effect pro forma. Shultz delivered his decision to deny the visa early Saturday morning. A public statement was drafted and a copy sent to Reagan, vacationing at his Santa Barbara, Calif., ranch. Powell called the President to summarize the pros and cons. Said a laconic senior official: "The President understood why the Secretary came to that conclusion, and he supported it." Neither George Bush nor incoming Secretary of State James Baker, who will inherit the repercussions, was consulted. Bush advisers were happy to distance the President-elect from the brouhaha. Said a grateful aide: "They chose...
...claim that Arafat's presence would endanger national security was, as put forward by the State Department, self-contradictory. It was based on an ambiguously worded U.S. law that, according to Shultz, conditions the Headquarters Agreement on a U.S. right "to safeguard its own security." Shultz's statement denying Arafat's visa asserted that P.L.O. members were excluded from the U.S. "by virtue of their affiliation in an organization which engages in terrorism." One paragraph later, the statement pointed out that since visas are routinely issued to members of the P.L.O. permanent observer mission at the U.N., Arafat's group...