Word: evenhandedness
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"In addition." Wiggins said, "the notice states no ground rules and gives no assurance that there is to be a fair, evenhanded discussion."
In Jerusalem, Premier Golda Meir spoke angrily last week of the "erosion" of U.S. policy and accused Washington of "appeasement"; one Israeli paper went so far as to call it "Mu-nichism." Secretary of State William Rogers replied that the U.S. was merely being "evenhanded." Added Rogers: "We have to...
A case can be made that the U.S. plan is indeed evenhanded. It offers Israel a way to unload the West Bank, which it cannot keep without making a fourth of its population Arab. It also provides what may well be the only moral (if not necessarily realistic) solution to...
Strong Language. The U.S. plan, in any case, created a government crisis. Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin was summoned home from Washington for a special Cabinet meeting. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, in an interview with TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin, rejected the proposals in unusually strong language. The U.S. Jewish community was anguished...
"Man was made out of the soft earth," said Richard Nixon, "and woman was made of a hard rib." The President was quoting a Jewish proverb to describe the tough-minded, 71-year-old grandmother who stood beside him: Israeli Premier Golda Meir, who had just met Nixon for the...