Word: true
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your story "The Women of Israel" [Feb. 20], with the subheading "second-class citizens," tends to leave a rather distorted impression. The true situation is something in between the Amazon image of the fierce combatant pictured in the movies, and the bleak portrait Ms. Hazleton is quoted as portraying in her book...
...true blooding of Jimmy Carter? The dawning of greater political wisdom? A lot of people prayed it was so and sincerely hoped that the taste of this win would give Carter born-again leadership. Up until last week it had been many years since a President who was not burdened with world crisis or Government scandal had lost so much of America's confidence...
Reports TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn: "It is true that as of now no Egyptian official will admit that a separate peace is a possibility. Even the most moderate, like Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali or pro-American Editor Mustafa Amin, maintain that a peace without the other Arabs is impossible. Sadat himself insists that he must have a comprehensive settlement, not an Israeli-Egyptian accord. But the gap between Sadat and the P.L.O. has widened almost to the point that it can never be bridged again, and the Egyptian President ultimately may have to make...
Pressure on Israel to make concessions to advance the prospects of a settlement has profoundly unsettled American Jews. They are not monolithic, of course, but generally they have become anxious, mistrustful and even angry with Carter and his Administration. Moderates charge the President with a lack of true understanding of Israel's precarious security situation-a point driven forcefully home by the P.L.O.'s terrorist raid into Tel Aviv two weeks ago. More extreme critics claim he is purposely pursuing a peace-at-any-price policy that will lead to Israel's certain destruction...
Throughout the noisy campaign, none of the center-right candidates dared tell French voters of the true dimensions of their problems. The official unemployment figure (1.04 million, or 4.7% of the work force) hides the fact that some 60,000 jobs are currently being supported artificially, many of them in companies that receive government subsidies to maintain operations. Some analysts estimate that the government has been spending more than $12 billion a year-one-sixth of the national budget-to prop up weak industries...