Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facto rather than a formal ceasefire has its perils. But because it sets no deadline for the sides to worry over as they work, it may actually help hasten the snail's pace of Middle East negotiations. As one diplomat at the United Nations explained: "We've been spending two weeks on substance and then two weeks on getting another cease-fire...
...aegis of Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco, the U.S. has been moving to repair its badly damaged position in the Arab world. Today U.S.-Arab relations are better than they have been at any time since the Six-Day War of 1967, and as one American diplomat puts it, "Joe is there pulling all the strings...
...Egypt, U.S. Diplomat Donald Bergus is officially listed as "Head of the U.S. Interests Section, Spanish Embassy," because the late Gamal Abdel Nasser broke off formal relations with Washington during the Six-Day War. But Bergus' contacts with top Egyptian officials have been so frequent and so cozy in recent months that the only remaining step would be formal renewal of relations. One reason for the new atmosphere is Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's impressive flexibility and reasonableness in dealing with Israel...
...Jordan, King Hussein has been in a strong position since he defeated the Palestinian guerrillas last September. The U.S. urged Hussein to take on the fedayeen, and according to one Amman diplomat, so did "his officers, his Cabinet, his brothers and even his mother." Since then, a total of $70 million worth of military and economic aid has been, or is to be, sent to Hussein. State Department aides report that assistance for Jordan is presently one of the least difficult items to get through State Department echelons-or through Congress...
Died. Adolf A. Berle Jr., 76, lawyer, economist, diplomat and charter member of F.D.R.'s New Deal Brain Trust; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Brilliant, often acerbic, Berle passed Harvard's entrance exams at 12, graduated cum laude from Harvard Law at the age of 21 and after the war opened a successful law practice that he continued until his death. But it was through Government service that he attained national prominence. As counsel to F.D.R.'s Reconstruction Finance Corp. from 1933-38, Berle helped shape much of the legislation designed to reform banking, railroading...