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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under way and for after five-year transition period to follow. The status of settlements after that Egypt, be determined by the negotiating parties - Israel, Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinians. The discussions are "very carefully recorded" by Carter himself, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Israeli Legal Adviser Aharon Barak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Unsettled Settlements Issue | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...accepts as a way to establish "a good atmosphere" for the upcoming Sinai negotiations. The Israelis, however, insist that the agreement refers only to civilian and not to military (nahal) settlements. During the final four-hour 25-minute discussion at Aspen Lodge, which was attended by Carter, Begin, Vance, Barak and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, Barak is the only notetaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Unsettled Settlements Issue | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

After returning to Jerusalem, Begin rechecks Barak's notes. They support the Israeli viewpoint: at first the agreed-upon freeze was for the three months of the Sinai negotiations, but after Vance pointed out that these talks could run longer than three months, the language was amended to "the duration of the negotiation of the peace treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Unsettled Settlements Issue | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Washington has flatly denied that Barak was the only one present at the Aspen Lodge meeting who took notes. Both sides, however, hope that the disagreement will become academic. Says a U.S. diplomat: "In the next three months, everybody understands that no new settlements can be allowed to interfere with the peace talks. After that, we don't think the Israelis will want to dampen in enthusiasm of West Bank and Gaza Palestinians to participate in self-rule." To anticipate such enthusiasm among the Palestinians may be a bit of wishful overstatement. Moreover, the degree of Israeli concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Unsettled Settlements Issue | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...patio, ponder some way to bridge the West Bank gulf. They devise ingenious two-track solution: let Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Palestinians negotiate at one level over final status of West Bank; let Israel and Jordan also seek a peace treaty at same time, with Palestinian participation. Israel's Barak is shown this U.S. proposal. "This is much better," he says. "I think we're getting somewhere." But Sadat tells Carter he still wants Palestinians to have right to select their own form of government and something must be done about Jerusalem. Carter sees Begin for four hours after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ordeal In the Mountains | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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