Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Panamanian Foreign Minister Aquilino Boyd. To give the talks a boost, Sol Linowitz, 53, the skilled former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, was added to the American negotiating team. The aim was to make him head of the effort, but he insisted on deferring to Veteran Diplomat Ellsworth Bunker, 82, who views the treaty as the culmination of a career of public service...
Secure Frontiers. But on the crucial question of border adjustments, Vance heard almost nothing new. The Israelis continued to insist that security considerations require them to keep some of the land that they have held since the 1967 war. At a state dinner for the American diplomat, Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon declared that "Israel must be allowed to live within defensible borders." While U.N. resolutions also insist that Israel is entitled to "secure" frontiers, there has been no consensus on what constitutes security. The Israelis' meaning has generally been indicated by the pattern of their settlements...
While the Israelis were not quite so effusive, Premier Yitzhak Rabin did declare that "I'm not nervous about the basic attitudes of President Carter or Secretary Vance toward Israel." The American diplomat had taken great pains to assure Israelis that the new U.S. Administration was fully committed to their country's survival...
...Congress pending some progress in the Cyprus negotiations. Makarios needs continued international support to maintain his political position in the face of strong gains by the Greek Cypriot Communist Party. "The Greek Cypriots now realize they can't return to the old Cyprus," says a foreign diplomat in Nicosia. "The Turks now understand they can't act like conquerors. The war is over." When he arrives in Cyprus from Athens and Ankara, Clark Clifford may find both sides more amenable than they have been at any time since...
...himself, which covers only the period following John F. Kennedy '40's election to the U.S. Senate in 1952--a victory that was at Lodge's expense, causing his retirement from the Senate. That defeat, however, launched a new career for Lodge as a presidential adviser and later a diplomat, which provides most of the material for his book...