Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attitudes remain hostile and suspicious, and social interaction between Jews and Arabs is infrequent. Clearly, normalization of relations is linked to a wider Middle East solution--but even if that is not forthcoming, there is much that the Israeli government and populace can do within Israel to defuse the threat of a hostile, unified Arab minority. As time passes, the romantic aura surrounding Israel has given way to the normal headaches of statehood: economic breakdowns, government corruption, social unrest, international disapprobation. With a dwindling immigration rate and increasing unrest among the Sephardic Jewish population, the last thing Israel needs...
...library. And when he emerged from the downstairs reading room in Cabot, all he did was complain about his work. Sam and Mark tried to persuade him to drop a course, but he just looked glum, talked about his future, and repeated his by-now well worn threat about jumping out the window. That spring, Todd took another heavy course load--only four courses this time, but even harder ones...
...Vice President. He told me when we met in July that he had just been reading some books on the presidency. One of the things that struck him was how Presidents seemed to feel threatened by the presence of a Vice President, as though he were a threat to their constitutional powers or reminded them of their mortality...
...massacres-another, in which more than 300 were killed, took place on April 29-reflect the jitters of a besieged regime. From the rebellious northern province of Eritrea to Ethiopia's southeastern frontier with Somalia, Mengistu and the Dergue face the gravest threat to their despotic rule since they overthrew U.S.-backed Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. In and around the capital, the main opposition group is the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (E.P.R.P.), a Marxist organization, led primarily by students and young workers, that demands a return to civilian rule. E.P.R.P. has given the Dergue good reason...
...Fructose Threat. Sugar producers see no quick way out of their troubles. President Carter has promised a subsidy of as much as 20 per lb. to U.S. growers, but that will still leave their return below production costs. A conference of producing and consuming nations in Geneva is exploring ways to establish a floor and ceiling price for sugar, but U.S. experts give it only a fifty-fifty chance of success. The obvious way to push prices back up is to cut production, but that is difficult for nations such as Cuba and the Dominican Republic, which depend on sugar...