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...Michael McCloskey executive director of the Sierra Club said, Only James Watt could fail to see the difference between Hermann Goring and John Muir a 19th century naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club...
...acted in concert in dealing with leaders of the warring factions. That was clearly not the case. From the beginning, I saw the meeting with Yasser Arafat as a propaganda ploy by the P.L.O., and I chose not to attend it. I immediately denounced the document that Congressman Pete McCloskey obtained from Arafat as nothing new and possibly a harmful deception...
resolutions relevant to the Palestinian question." In the furor that followed, California's Paul McCloskey, the only Republican in the group, triumphantly declared that the statement implied that the P.L.O. was about to recognize Israel's right to exist. The Congressman said he would urge the U.S. to open direct dealings with the P.L.O. But McCloskey's euphoria was soon punctured. Within hours the so-called Arafat document was denounced by Israel as a propaganda ploy, and explicitly disavowed as a recognition of Israel by official P.L.O. spokesmen in Beirut, New York and Paris. That blow came...
...P.L.O. might be ready to recognize Israel, his position has generally fallen far short of the unequivocal public declaration the U.S. would demand. Hopes for a deal rose somewhat on Sunday when Arafat signed a document accepting "all U.N. resolutions relevant to the Palestinian question." California Republican Paul N. McCloskey Jr., visiting Beirut with five other Congressmen, said that the P.L.O. leader in effect had recognized Israel's right to exist. By doing so, McCloskey said, Arafat had cleared the way for direct negotiations with the U.S. McCloskey told reporters that he would urge Secretary of State George Shultz...
...California, earnestly competent San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson, 48, won the Republican Senate nomination over three Congressmen-Barry Goldwater Jr. (a Senator's son), Pete McCloskey and Robert Dornan-and Maureen Reagan (a presidential daughter). Far ahead in the polls only six months ago, an overconfident Goldwater ran a lazy and lackluster campaign and finished a distant third with only 19% of the vote. Governor Jerry Brown won the Democratic Senate nomination, but it was not an impressive victory. He captured only 51% of the ballots cast, giving up 15% to Author Gore Vidal, 15% to little-known State...