Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Europeans, however, have been growing increasingly cool to the idea of sanctions. Explained Italian Columnist Alfredo Pieroni: "The hostages are not a global problem. In a world thirsty for petroleum, it is not productive to push one of the great oil producers into the arms of the Soviet Union." Said a senior West German Chancellery aide: "The trick with sanctions is to squeeze the Iranians enough to be persuasive without alienating them entirely. But in the long run, sanctions never work anyway...
...occupied by the Israelis, along with the West Bank and Gaza, during the 1967 Six-Day War. Declared Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Boutros Ghali: "The fact that Israel passes such a law shows that the will to find a political solution [to the Palestinian problem] does not exist...
...Western European proposal to supplement U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 with a new resolution calling for the Palestinian right to self-determination. (Resolution 242, passed in 1967, calls on the Israelis to return to the prewar borders; it also refers to the Palestinians only as a "refugee problem.") Sadat has always rejected the idea of multiparty conference under U.N. auspices because he does not want the Soviet Union to have an important role in the Middle East negotiations. But in the light of recent events in Israel, Ghali said cryptically, "Egypt will be studying different alternatives...
Surprisingly, in some areas unemployment is no real problem. Massachusetts, the buckle on the formerly declining New England snow belt, is enjoying something of a boom due to prosperous high-technology firms. An official of Raytheon, the flourishing electronics firm near Boston, says, "The level of our unemployment is lost in the noise. It's hardly worth talking about." Frank Whitfield, vice president of Whitfield Pickle Co. in Montgomery, Ala., says his only problem is that he cannot get enough cucumbers. "At my plant we let 77 people go. It was not because of the economy but because...
...anxiety tension problem is a nationwide epidemic "as serious as the bubonic plague," Humes says, explaining that a tension epidemic is more frightening "because the symptoms are harder to detect...