Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...draw a map setting boundaries. But to banish some of the Jewish fears about his call for a homeland for the Palestinians, he said that such a haven would have to be a part of Jordan; he did not favor a separate Palestinian state, which could be a threat to peace. A settlement, he stressed, cannot be imposed; it must be negotiated. During a time of crisis, however, there would be no withholding of U.S. arms from Israel "while I am President." On all this, Carter said he was speaking for what he called the strong national consensus on Israel...
This week a seven-member federal commission that has studied the invasion of privacy for nearly two years will issue a 654-page report showing that the problem is far worse than most people think. The report touches on the threat to privacy that stems from Government gumshoes but concentrates chiefly on the danger posed by private firms, most of which operate with no restrictions on the information they collect and the way in which they use it. Says Commission Chairman David Linowes, a University of Illinois political economist:* "We are an information-spoiled society. It's been...
...province and an opposition stronghold. It was a dazzling victory-except that practically everybody in Pakistan assumed that the elections had been massively rigged by Bhutto's zealous supporters. Accordingly, the opposition alliance immediately embarked on a campaign of rioting, looting and strikes, which carried with it a threat of civil war. Nearly 300 people have been killed in the violence...
...massacres." Benin did not even bother to attend the summit because it blames Gabon for last January's attempted coup against Benin President Mathieu Kerekou. Hoping to cool tempers, Nigeria's head of state, Lieut. General Olusegun Obasanjo, observed that "intra-African quarrels now constitute a real threat to peace and harmony in our continent...
...former minister of religious affairs and a distinguished expert on Islam, was kidnaped by youthful Muslim extremists who threatened to execute him unless the government paid $300,000 and released 60 of their comrades from jail. Even while the government negotiated, the kidnapers last week carried out their threat. Three days after the sheik's disappearance, his body was discovered in a house near the pyramids at Giza. He had been tortured, strangled and shot through...