Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Procedure The sides remain deeply split on the mechanics of Geneva. Begin demands face-to-face Arab-Israeli talks without any preliminary negotiations. The Arabs want ample advance negotiations, with the U.S. acting in an honest broker role to iron out the tough issues ahead of time and thus avoid a calamitous breakdown. Vance largely agrees. Said he last week: "I myself believe the more that can be resolved [before Geneva], the better we will...
...Palestinian issue that shows most clearly how the Carter Administration is moving more toward Arab than Israeli views, increasing the likelihood of a U.S.-Israeli clash despite the artificial joviality surrounding Begin's recent U.S. visit. The U.S. now accepts the Arab argument-with softer qualifications than before-that Palestinians should be included in negotiations. Moreover, Washington is searching for some way to open a dialogue between the U.S. and Yasser Arafat's P.L.O.-if the Palestinians are willing to accept the terms of an American push for peace...
...House visit in May. Carter has continued the indirect dialogue: in an interview with TIME earlier this month, he reiterated his position urging the P.L.O. to accept the United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for recognition of Israel's existence in exchange for the return of Arab territory...
Vance was advised first by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and then by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal that Arafat, who had been shuttling between Arab states almost as rapidly as Vance himself, was "tinkering" with changes in the longstanding P.L.O. stand against Israel. Vance flashed the news to Plains in a midnight cable, and Carter again urged Palestinians to agree to Resolution 242, in order to make possible "discussions" with the U.S. and participate in a Geneva Conference...
...France: the independence of her defense and the independence of her energy supply." So said President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing while visiting Pierrelatte, the French Los Alamos, just before last week's battle. France has no oil and very little coal, and the 1973 Arab oil boycott dramatically demonstrated French reliance on foreign energy. Since 1974, as a result, the government has organized an ambitious atomic-energy program to provide at least 40 conventional nuclear-power plants and a 1,200-megawatt fast-neutron plant that will breed plutonium fuel from uranium wastes, reducing any necessity...