Word: things
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instructions to remain inside their houses and to keep air conditioners turned off to limit the intake of any contaminated air. To prevent looting, Mayor Robert Reid imposed a 9 p.m.-to-7 a.m. curfew. The Red Cross was ready for any full-scale evacuation. It was no new thing, in a way; the town had been cleared during several recent floods, dating from the big one of 1972. Across the river, tiny Goldsboro (pop. 600) was virtually a ghost town...
Even on the weekend before the signing, Carter feared that a last-minute hitch might bring the whole thing crashing down once more. On Sunday night there was a flurry of concern when the President was told that Begin had gone to the Egyptian embassy to see Sadat about some agreements still not made. But soon word came that the two men had worked out the problem of how and when Israel was to turn back the Sinai oilfields to Egypt...
Peace has one thing in common...
Adds former Under Secretary of State George Ball: "The treaty is a very useful achievement only if it is followed up. If it is not, it could cause more harm than good." Ball suggests several steps Washington should soon take. For one thing, he urges the Administration to open "immediate, direct discussions with the Palestine Liberation Organization so that the Arabs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank can feel that they have some representation." According to Ball, Washington's recently repeated offer to negotiate with the P.L.O. only if it recognizes Israel is evidence that the Administration...
...another thing, Ball urges "an outright declaration by the U.S. that the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are not a lesser breed and that they have the right to self-determination." In the context of a final peace settlement, moreover, Ball suggests that the U.S. consider establishing a military base on the West Bank in order to reassure both sides of the American determination to help keep the peace...