Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Toward dawn I made my final tour of the front. I checked on the defenses of Pochentong airport. There had been some heavy fighting during the night, but there was nothing to indicate that the Khmer Rouge had made any significant breakthrough that would drastically change the military situation. Everywhere I went, soldiers were preparing as usual for another day of war. They brushed their teeth and cleaned their guns as on any other morning of the past five years...
With South Viet Nam's future so shaky, the seven church-related and other private U.S. adoption agencies in the country tried to speed the emigration process. A breakthrough came when Edward Daly, the bluff president of World Airways (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) arranged with the U.S.'s Friends of All Children agency in Saigon to fly 450 orphans to the U.S. Daly has long been a benefactor of Vietnamese orphanages and offered to pay for the flight himself. But Saigon-based officials of the U.S. Agency for International Development told Friends of All Children that Daly...
Intense Meetings. Neither side faulted Kissinger for not having done his best to break the deadlock. Nonetheless, the Secretary failed to make the "conceptual breakthrough" essential to an agreement. Israel wanted more in the way of a nonbelligerency pledge from Egypt, in return for sizable pullbacks in the Sinai, than Sadat was willing to concede. No matter how he pressed the opportunities. Kissinger failed to budge either side. The Secretary's mission ended in Jerusalem, where he had a series of intense meetings with Premier Yitzhak Rabin, who felt the issue so urgent that he summoned his cabinet...
...formalize remarks the Egyptian President made in Paris two weeks ago, when he told newsmen that neither Egypt nor Syria would attack Israel. Said Premier Rabin in a speech last week: "As we say in the army, let him put it on an order blank and we have a breakthrough, a chance at agreement...
...Arabs would be willing to sign a peace treaty," he says, then I'd be willing to withdraw from all the territories, with a few minor amendments. I believe there may soon be a breakthrough in negotiations with Egypt--I don't know about a peace treaty--and with Egypt, war is not possible in the Middle East...