Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington was startled, as were capitals around the world, for in his 31 months at the U.N., the freewheeling Young had demonstrated an extraordinary capacity to ride out and survive the controversies that he generated. But this time there was no stilling the uproar when it was learned that Young had met with an official of the Palestine Liberation Organization, in violation of repeatedly stated U.S. policy, and then deliberately misled the Department of State about the meeting...
...soon clear that Young had become too great a liability for a White House that has been striving to demonstrate that it is capable of national leadership. Not only had Young's deception gravely embarrassed Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, but the meeting with the P.L.O. had enraged Israel and threatened to derail U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. American black leaders, on the other hand, were angry at Carter for so readily accepting Young's departure, and they hinted that the President might pay for his action with lost black votes. Several of them also blamed...
...furor over Young erupted just as Robert Strauss, a special U.S. envoy for the Middle East negotiations, was heading back there for talks with Israeli and Egyptian leaders. He had already faced a gathering crisis over Israeli concern that the U.S. was reaching out to try to bring the P.L.O. into the Middle East peace process, a prospect that is anathema to Jerusalem. Said Strauss on the plane to the Middle East: "The Young affair ... reinforces the unfounded suspicions that the U.S. is dealing in the dark with the P.L.O...
Even before Andy Young's venture, there were a number of U.S.-P.L.O. contacts, most notably by Milton Wolf, a leader of the Cleveland Jewish community and currently U.S. Ambassador in Austria, who met with Issam Sartawi, a Vienna-based P.L.O. official. Coming on top of the other contacts, Young's meeting with the P.L.O. set off alarms in Jerusalem. It seemed to confirm a shift in U.S. policy and clearly raised the level of contact; as U.N. Ambassador, Young sits in the Carter Cabinet...
According to a U.S. Government source, TIME learned, Young "walked right into" the espionage network Israel maintains in New York to keep watch on the Palestinians. "The Israelis have staked out the Arabs around the U.N. with bugs, taps and surveillance," said the source. Israeli agents thus followed Terzi to the Kuwaiti residence and watched Young arrive. What went on inside the town house, said the American source, was picked up by clandestine Israeli recording devices that had been planted some time before. (A senior Israeli source gave a slightly different version, saying that Israel obtained details of the Young...