Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AFTER NEARLY thirty years of conflict, the recent breakthrough in relations between Israel and Egypt comes as a welcome surprise. Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat's historic trip to Israel was a symbolic gesture that may signal a break in the seemingly endless escalating cycles of hostility in the Middle East. Similarly, Sadat's request last week for a meeting in Cairo, as soon as possible, of all nations and Palestinian representatives involved in the complex Middle East situation to discuss the upcoming Geneva peace talks is heartening. Again, Sadat's move was a welcome one, although it still lies...
...situation as tangled as that of the Middle East, only one thing is abundantly clear: enough blood has been shed by everyone involved. Sadat's initiatives could be the opening to the chance of a generation to end the conflict. Each side must be realistically prepared to compromise, or else the precious new dialogue will be discontinued. Egypt's initiative and the corresponding Israeli response are just the potential first steps towards the achievement of a fair and permanent Middle East peace settlement...
...that it would be an "overreaction" to read into them any conclusion that the two have no differences. Moreover, declared Powell, when Carter said that he and Burns have "never had any disagreements" he meant only that they broadly agree on what the President had called the "inherent conflict" between the need to reduce both inflation and unemployment. Any more questions...
Increasingly impatient with the slow progress of the U.S. initiative, Sadat began to think more and more about bold ways to break the stalemate. "The Arab-Israeli conflict," he told the U.S. Congressmen, "contains 70% psychological problems and 30% substance." What Sadat wanted was a move so dramatic that it would both shock and inspire the other parties involved to return to the path of negotiations. That could be only one thing, he eventually decided: speaking over the heads of the Israeli leaders to their people about peace, and doing so in front of their own parliament...
Conservative Quinn, who succeeds Cincinnati's moderate Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, is best known for administrative skill and intellect, both useful at a time of continuing conflict between the bishops and dissidents agitated about such things as Rome's positions on divorce and birth control. The U.S. bishops' rapport with the Vatican, says President Quinn, is "good, because it's not bad." The U.S. hierarchy has rejected challenges to such Vatican policies as clerical celibacy and an all-male priesthood issued by diocesan delegates at last year's "Call to Action" meeting. But decisions are still...