Word: abandonments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Initial responses to the plan have been positive, though somewhat skeptical. The Israelis, for instance, have indicated they would abandon their policy of pre-emptive shelling if the P.L.O. would pledge similar restraint. Some faint hopes for broader cooperation between these two groups eventually were also raised by Israel's Foreign Minister, Moshe Dayan, who hinted in New York last week that Israel might even consider direct dealings with the P.L.O. one day. But only if it were to transform itself from a "military organization" into a "political framework," he was careful to insist...
...Viet Nam. But it soon came up against the reality that had also bedeviled its predecessor. We could not simply walk away from an enterprise involving two Administrations, five allied countries and 31,000 American dead as if we were switching a television channel. For a great power to abandon a small country to tyranny simply to obtain a respite from our own domestic travail seemed to me-and still seems to me-profoundly immoral and destructive of our efforts to build a new and ultimately more peaceful pattern of international relations. We could not revitalize the Atlantic Alliance...
...group as being less tough than his advisers. I have no doubt that Agnew's intervention accelerated Nixon's ultimate decision to order an attack on all the sanctuaries and use American forces. Agnew was right; we should either neutralize all of the sanctuaries or abandon the project. We were in danger of combining the disadvantages of every course of action. We would be castigated for intervention in Cambodia without accomplishing any strategic purpose...
Center halfback Jeanne Piersiak continues to be a bright spot. The tenacious freshman from Needham played as though she owned every mud puddle on the field. Darting about with reckless abandon, Piersiak slid in the mud several times in successful attempts to regain possession of the ball...
...church in China [Sept. 10] inadvertently asked an interesting question. Will Pope John Paul II, if he is successful in re-establishing relations with Communist China, allow Roman Catholics there to keep the church as it was before the Second Vatican Council, or will they have to abandon their traditions and endure the shock of all the changes that have occurred in the church over the past 20 years...