Word: israel
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Hyperbole has also been a difficulty for the President and has exacerbated doubt about him. Four minutes after meeting President Hafez Assad of Syria, Carter described him before television cameras as one of his "favorite leaders," thoroughly confusing Assad, not to mention Israel. Visiting Tehran, Carter sang the praises of the Shah, then jettisoned the Iranian leader when the King of Kings began to fall; the episode was one of the sorriest in the Administration. The President's description of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as "the most serious threat to peace since the Second World War" was another...
...more durable antagonisms is fraught with risks. King Hussein has complicated his already strained relations with the various Palestinian guerrilla organizations by siding with Iraq against Iran. The Palestinian groups saw the late Shah as their own enemy because he maintained relations with, and supplied oil to Israel; they back Khomeini because he cut off the oil shipments to Israel and turned the official Israeli mission building in Tehran over to the P.L.O...
Barber said he is preparing a report based on information from sources at the hospitals in Italy and Israel where Cline performed his operations...
Cline is the first known scientist to perform genetic engineering techniques on humans. He treated two women this summer in Italy and Israel for a rare blood disease called betathalessmia by introducing healthy genes into the patients' blood...
Cline says that safety guidelines similar to those in the U.S. were followed in Israel and Italy. But, observed one Israeli hematologist, "if this type of research is forbidden in the U.S., a world model for such work, I would hesitate to approve it in my own country." In Washington, the National Institutes of Health's Office for Protection from Research Risks has asked U.C.L.A. for a full report. Declares Cline: "After consideration of all the scientific and moral aspects, I'd do it again...