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...August, Crown Prince Fahd announced a peace plan for the Middle East. Among other things, this plan called for a transitional United Nations trusteeship over the West Bank and Gaza until the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. Abdullah acknowledged that Fahd's initiative implicitly recognizes the existence of Israel, a potentially important concession: "The initiative was proposed after the Camp David accords were considered dead or at least dying. Our plan recognizes the right of Israel to exist only after, the acceptance of a Palestinian state, the return to the 1967 borders and an end to the state...
...Israeli settlements in the West Bank and other occupied areas; 3) guarantees of freedom of worship for all religious groups within these areas; 4) recognition of the rights of 2 million Palestinian refugees - from the 1948 war as well as the 1967 war - for repatriation or compensation; 5) U.N. trusteeship over the West Bank and Gaza Strip during a transition period of several months; and 6) establishment of an independent Palestinian state, with the Arab eastern section of Jerusalem as its capital. Such an agreement, Fahd continued, should be guaranteed by the U.N. or by some of its members, presumably...
Most of the recollections--not necessarily in chronological order--stemmed out of my activity in the then Harvard Liberal Club, which in those days could boast a clubhouse heavily mortgaged but benefiting by the benign trusteeship of at least two faculty members: Arthur Holcombe and Arthur M. Schlesinger (the father, of course). Much of our activity was unstructured because we were...
Carter's interest stands in contrast to U.S. attitudes during most of the 31 years of American trusteeship. From 1947 to 1960, the U.S. neglected Micronesia almost entirely. Then, stung by a strongly critical U.N. report, Washington began pouring in money, mostly for education and social welfare. To date, the U.S. has invested more than $250 million in the islands, spawning a huge bureaucracy...
Fuqua executives and some Avis shareholders implied that Smith does not want to sell because of the fees he derives from the trusteeship. Over the past two years, they note, Smith has received fees of $100,000 from ITT. His law firm got $220,000 from ITT for various services involving Avis. In addition, Smith and one of his law partners have also been paid retainers of $6,000 a year as Avis directors, plus expenses for them and their wives to travel to meetings in Europe. Fuqua contends that Avis, the only major car-rental firm that...