Word: thought
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House meanwhile was barraged with letters. Says Samuel Kaplan, board member of the Zionist Organization of America: "People thought they had seen a Jewish lobby operate before. They haven't seen anything...
...called Basket III clauses, pledging a free flow of people and information. In addition, the agreement contained a sweeping declaration to respect human rights. The Soviets complied in exchange for things they wanted: the Basket I and II declarations on military, economic and technological cooperation. The Russians evidently thought no one would hold them to their pledges. In Belgrade, the U.S. delegation, headed by Albert Sherer, a former ambassador to Czechoslovakia, is determined to prevent the Soviets from sliding by an examination of their record on human rights and every other provision of Helsinki. The U.S. joined the British...
Jewish leaders fear that their cause is not being properly represented. Middle East diplomacy, they complain, is in the hands of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and his assistant William Quandt, a specialist in Palestinian affairs. Brzezinski is thought to be pro-Arab-perhaps unfairly-by some supporters of Israel because he was one of the authors of a 1975 Brookings report calling for Israel's withdrawal to its 1967 borders. The two Jewish aides closest to Carter, Domestic Policy Assistant Stuart Eizenstat and White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz, are not considered sufficiently attuned to the Jewish community...
Woodrow Wilson's spiritualism, so fervidly translated into his political approaches, helped defeat his great dream of putting America in the League of Nations. But it was at the core of Wilson's talk and thought about peace, a legacy that has helped raise him to high historical status...
...small triumphs over old, ingrained fears. Even after the referendum last December, in which an overwhelming 90% of those voting endorsed the reform program that led to the election, many Spaniards doubted that it would take place. Recalled Writer Ernesto Carratala, 23: "Three or four months ago, many people thought June 15 would never happen, something would prevent it. They first had to see the election campaign to understand that the left was serious. And only that generated an opening up in the public...