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Stone said that "the petition is an important preliminary step and a means of measuring student support of the issue...
...CAMP DAVID accord, while not a carved-in-stone guarantee of Middle East peace and a Palestinian state, is the single largest step toward those goals in 30 years. As such, it is incumbent on all Middle East interests to strive to implement the ideals of the accord. However, steps toward this solution will necessarily be small, tentative and conditioned on similar action by the opposing side, since suspicion runs too high for any party to unilaterally make dramatic concessions...
There is also no point in debating over whether or not the agreement constituted a "seperate peace" between Egypt and Israel. It clearly was just that; and the Sinai agreement ratified last week by the Israeli Knesset marked a remarkable step toward ending hostilities between the two countries. To be realistic, moreover, that is really all that could be expected. It is inconceivable that the Begin government, or any other Israeli government, would have accepted any agreement that did not include a seperate peace, since Israel views the diffusion of Egypt as a military threat as essential to its primary...
...been seeking what diplomats and journalists alike have called a "fig leaf to make compromise respectable. A generally agreed-on declaration of principles, Sadat reasoned, would provide a framework within which other Arab states could negotiate their own deals with Israel. Sadat's deal has now become the first step toward a comprehensive settlement in the Middle East. If the other Arab states remain obdurately outside the negotiating process, it could also become a totally separate peace...
Fearing that Brooke's chances for a third term were slipping away, thousands of Democratic blacks and white liberals took the unusual step of changing their party registration to vote in the Republican primary. So too did large numbers of blue-collar workers, who were attracted by Nelson's antibusing, antitax positions. In the end, as many as 30,000 non-Republicans voted hi the G.O.P. primary...