Word: buffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack if they become frustrated by the failures of diplomacy to get Israel to relinquish territory occupied in 1967 and grant some of the Palestinian demands. The most critical time will be late spring, when the weather is right for military operations, and the mandates expire for the U.N. buffer forces now stationed in the Sinai and on the Golan Heights. Short of war, both the Israelis and the Palestine Liberation Organization are expected to continue their cross-border terrorist and commando raids...
...Lost Buffer. This sequence of events would have seemed unthinkable as recently as nine or ten months ago. Smith's concession-and the whole process of rapprochement that is underway in southern Africa-stems directly from the coup d'état in Lisbon last April and the subsequent decision by the new Portuguese government to grant independence to Mozambique next year and to Angola not long thereafter. Faced with the loss of the Portuguese colonies as buffer states, South African Prime Minister John Vorster pressed forward with a plan to achieve a détente between black...
...negotiation, no solution except a radical accommodation that neither the Arabs nor the Israelis have yet found acceptable. The first step could be a very simple one: a withdrawal by the Israelis of only four or five kilometers on the Golan Heights, to permit a widening of the U.N. buffer zone. Such a modest gesture, high U.S. officials believe, could be the Confucian first step that could lead to the necessary 10,000 miles of negotiation. For Yitzhak Rabin, the challenge will be to compromise, to conciliate, perhaps even to try to deal with his people's ultimate enemies...
...notion that developed agricultural nations with excess production potential can buffer the hungry and increasingly populous nations through donations of food grains on an ever increasing scale has finite limitations. Already there is some evidence that the people of developed nations cannot indefinitely accept the progressively higher taxes and reduced living standards implicit in continuing large-scale and growing foreign...
...Soviet U.N. Delegate Yakov Malik at one point last week brusquely vetoed a U.N. Security Council draft resolution on the crisis. The motion called for beefing up the Cyprus peace-keeping force to 5,000 men and allowing U.N. troops to begin mapping cease-fire lines and laying out buffer zones between Greeks and Turks. Malik hinted that the Soviets are increasingly unhappy with the exclusive Western involvement in solving the Cyprus crisis. After making his point, Malik let the motion pass the next...