Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Moynihan Concept. Aware that FAP would strike an antagonistic chord in committee conservatives of his own party, President Nixon had relied on Democratic liberals for needed support. But to them, FAP, as it would affect most recipients, was still not generous enough. The bill also seemed almost as subject to abuse as current laws. As Republican Jack Miller of Iowa said last week: "I don't know one member of the committee who will support the Administration plan as written...
...Finance Committee fails to send the bill to the floor with a favorable report, as now seems certain, Administration backers may try to attach FAP to a Social Security bill regarded as sure to pass. But without the support of Finance Committee members, the effort has little chance...
...greater-conspiracy theory, but suggested that three of the bank robbers were bent on using the loot to finance their radical cause. Though novel in the U.S. today, the idea is not entirely new. Quebec separatist terrorists have long been suspected of robbing Montreal banks in order to support their movement. Some South American revolutionaries have tried similar capers. But if the plot theory is correct, it could represent a basic departure in radical tactics. Fire-bombing banks and other capitalist institutions to tear down the Establishment is one thing; robbing them to finance the cause is something else again...
Outlook for Hussein. For the King, his clouded victory in the civil war could well prove a Pyrrhic one. The fedayeen are too strongly entrenched throughout the Arab world for Hussein to eliminate them. Never a favorite among his fellow Arab rulers, the King has now lost almost all support. Palestinians living under Israeli occupation on the Jordan's west bank last week talked proudly of "our revolution." Algeria and Libya, at one point during the civil war, made moves to join on the side of the fedayeen. Libya also cut off its annual $25.2 million subsidy to Jordan...
...overriding issue separating Arab leaders is how much support to give the Palestinian guerrilla movement. Because of their vow to destroy Israel as a state, the fedayeen have won immense popularity among the masses throughout the Arab world. Almost all Arab governments provide limited support to the guerrillas, and the more radical ones unreservedly endorse their cause. But established leaders are leary of the fedayeen's fanaticism and appalled by some of their tactics, especially airliner shootups and hijackings. Most of all, they see the proselytizing guerrillas as threats to their own regimes, and have hardly been reassured...