Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...already ailing from a series of recent blows -the European action is bound to pose a new political challenge for President Carter when he meets the European leaders at the industrial countries' economic summit at the same site in Venice this weekend. For the moment, however, the U.S. reaction was relatively sanguine. That was only out of a sense of relief, because the European initiative could have been stronger. In Washington, within hours of the summit, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie expressed a conciliatory view of the European action. "I do not see anything on its face which directly...
...That left Israel, which, to no one's surprise, bluntly rejected the European action, especially the gesture toward the P.L.O. "It is certainly not a constructive act that can be conducive to peace," snapped a senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official. "It can only complicate the peace process." Palestinian reaction was cautious. Said P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat: "Partly positive, partly lacking...
...government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha was careful to keep its reaction subdued and controlled. Only after the A.N.C. had claimed responsibility for the acts did the government name two of the group's nonblack expatriate leaders as the raid's presumed masterminds. They were Joe Slovo, a white Communist exile now residing in Mozambique, and Frene Ginwala, a radical woman lawyer believed to be living underground within southern Africa...
...jurisdiction only when federal laws are violated-but apparently it was misinterpreted by Carter as evidence that the shooting was an attempted assassination. Webster cautiously called Carter's use of the word a "possibly acceptable interpretation of the available facts." But another FBI official had a blunter reaction to the President's statement. Said he: "Premature is the kindest word. We haven't eliminated any theories. It could have been night riders, or someone who heard Jordan's speech, or someone who knew the woman and didn't want her riding with any man. There...
Bristol and spokesmen for other national anti-registration groups, however, point to the reaction that greeted Carter's program immediately after the president's speech. Students across the nation demonstrated against the president's plan, and at Harvard more than 800 turned out on one of the coldest nights of the year to protest the proposal. But since the bill entered Congress in February, registration news has faded from the pages of newspapers and activism has decreased...