Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disappointed by Mr. Emmerich's reporting of events at Thursday's Student Assembly meeting ("Assembly Delays Taking a Position on South Africa"). I was under the impression that he did not view the vote to recess as a trial vote on the entire South Africa issue. Therefore, I did not bother to explain to him all the details of my efforts to bring the Engelhard issue before the Assembly last night. I would like to take this opportunity to set the record straight...
...just simple myopia that has caused Vietnam to disappear from the American view. Embarrassment and guilt have made it easy to focus on other parts of the world, and think of Indochina, if at all, as a minor adjunct to some other problem, somewhere else...
...reconciliation with President Ahmed Hassan Bakr. Syria and Iraq have been enemies for years, largely because their governments are run by feuding branches of the Baath (resurrection) party, a pan-Arab movement founded some 40 years ago. Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council holds the hard-line view that the U.S. lacks the will or the power to put enough pressure on Israel to restore Arab rights in the occupied territories. Therefore, the Iraqis reason, the Arabs must do the job themselves. With Egypt committed to a peace agreement with Israel, the Iraqis invited the Syrians to join in forming...
...P.L.O. Without the P.L.O. there will be no negotiations at all." Israel, meanwhile, still flatly rejects any idea of P.L.O. participation in negotiations. Both Washington and Jerusalem want negotiations on the future of the West Bank and Gaza to include Jordan's King Hussein?a prospect the West Bankers view with mixed feelings. Many moderates believe that Jordanian rule over the territory between 1949 and 1967 was fully as objectionable as the Israeli occupation. Last month, when King Hussein voiced his own skepticism over the Camp David proposals for Palestinian autonomy, objecting to their failure to provide full Arab sovereignty...
...Furthermore, from the administration's point of view, the student at Harvard is beside the point," he observed...