Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin ambled through the streets of Washington like a Russian bear who resembled your Uncle Ralph. There has never been anything quite like him in capital diplomacy. He survived Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and Gorbachev. Sighs Soviet Expert William Hyland: "That's a major achievement in itself...
Hardly had the Camp David accords been signed on Sept. 17, 1978, when the participants began to argue about what they had agreed to during the 13 days they had spent together at the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. On Sept. 18, President Jimmy Carter told Congress that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin had agreed to a freeze on the building of new Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip until an autonomy agreement for those territories had been negotiated--a process that could take several years. For his part, Begin insisted that...
...helped catapult the peace process into the limbo in which it remains today. How did the confusion arise? In a new book, Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics, published last week by the Brookings Institution, Middle East Expert William Quandt, a staff member of the National Security Council during the Carter Administration and a participant in the Camp David talks, provides an insider's account of the flaw at the heart of Carter's greatest foreign- policy success. It is a cautionary tale about the frailties of diplomacy...
Quandt believes Carter was essentially correct in thinking that, at a crucial Sept. 16 meeting, Begin agreed the settlements freeze was to be linked to the autonomy talks. On the other hand, Quandt adds, "it is clear from most accounts that Begin did say something about a freeze for only three months, though he apparently implied that it could be extended...
...Carter administration strongly urged South Africa to grant the Namibians their independence in exchange for the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola. Diplomatic progress has been made since then--the most recent negotiations saw the Luanda regime concede the withdrawal of all but 10,000 of the Cubans, who would be stationed more than 1000 miles north of the Namibian border. But by aggravating the Luanda government and thwarting the peace process, South Africa has fabricated a pretext for its colonialist extension of apartheid into Namibia...