Big John's Middle East plan
Nothing timid about John Connally. The Republican presidential aspirant readily concedes that negotiations for peace in the Middle East are "sensitive and delicate." But in a foreign policy address to the Washington Press Club, the Texan galloped headlong onto that fragile ground last week with a nine-point peace plan of his own. Its basic principles: Israel must stop its "creeping annexation of the West Bank" and abandon all territory it seized in 1967; her Arab neighbors, in turn, must renounce force and terrorism and pledge "stable oil prices" to the Western world. If those conditions are met,...
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