Word: states
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, asks that Nixon and his wife, Pat, be prevented from buying the 12-room apartment unless they get rid of the agents assigned to guard the former president...
...particular, they hoped to concentrate talks on the replacement of current white-controlled police and military forces with their own black troops. But Muzorewa would have none of that. Rather than transfer leadership of the police and military forces to the Front--in effect, ceding control of the state to Nkomo and Mugabe--the Bishop insisted on discussing only moderate "constitutional reforms" without a word about new elections or ending white safeguards...
Margaret Thatcher and her administration also stand to gain considerably from a peace settlement, and to lose if the London conference collapses. For one thing, Thatcher needs a foreign policy triumph to take public minds off the Irish situation, the poor state of the economy, and the harshness of cutbacks and austerity measures imposed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Geoffrey Howe. For another, she would like to associate her administration with a progressive African policy in order to outflank the Labor party, which had been traditionally more interested in the fight against apartheid. Further, the Tory leadership would like...
...Palestinians are fragmented, geographically and politically. Those who live in the territory of the former British mandate of Palestine are divided into two groups--Israeli Arabs, and the Arabs of the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip. Those who left Palestine either in 1948, when Israel became a state, or in 1967, when Israel moved into the West Bank and Gaza, are dispersed all over the Middle East, in Jordan, in the Emirates, in Saudi Arabia, in Syria, in Lebanon where the guerillas of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are located. Some Palestinians owe their allegiance to the state...
...attempt by the PLO to unite those fragments and to turn a dispersed people into a nation and a state has of course met with fierce resistance from Israel. The PLO's charter calls for the destruction of Israel; many of the Palestinians in exile come from what is now the state of Israel, and claim a right to return, in which Israel sees a threat to its existence...