Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israeli officials frequently speak of the settlers as living in peace with their Palestinian neighbors. In fact, these pioneers have relatively little contact with Arab villages near by. Palestinian farmers do come to some settlements to barter fruits and vegetables, but closer contacts are shunned by both sides. When one Arab approached residents at Karnei Shomron, near the 1967 border, and asked if he could send his child to the community's day care center, they said no, on the ground that it would set a dangerous precedent...
...other hand, NATO analysts foresee growing animosity between Moscow and its Warsaw Pact allies. The study urged the U.S. to persist in seeking closer ties with Eastern Europe at Moscow's expense. But one Soviet relationship, that with Prague, seems likely to stay firm for quite some time. Czech President Gustav Husak last week actually thanked the Soviets for their "unselfish assistance" in invading his country ten years ago and toppling the liberal Dubcek regime...
...more differentiated" one toward Eastern Europe. As he told TIME: "We wanted to show that the road to Eastern Europe did not necessarily lead through Moscow." A year ago, Brzezinski prepared a classified Presidential Directive setting forth three guidelines for the Executive Branch: 1) the U.S. should cultivate a closer relationship with Eastern Europe for its own sake rather than as a byproduct of detente with the Soviet Union; 2) the criteria for deciding which countries to concentrate on should include how much they have relaxed their internal rules as well as how far they have strayed from the U.S.S.R...
...enjoying new resonance with his President, hit the airwaves via Meet the Press with still sterner talk. Although he went along with the tougher approach, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance moved from Cabinet Room to presidential office counseling his brand of calm deliberation, which in some ways is closer to Jimmy Carter's true nature. Vance's soothing hand could be felt in the rush of events while NATO met, the U.N. debated and almost everybody talked...
...more blunt last week. Saying that he felt "no threat" from the Soviet Union, Ecevit announced that he would visit Moscow later this month to sign a friendship agreement. "It's an increasingly smaller world," he told TIME State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden. "It's natural there should be closer cooperation between countries of different alliances...