Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Popular Hawks. Israel, angered and badly shaken by Kissinger's insinuations that his efforts had been doomed by Jerusalem's intransigence, is aware that it will be under pressure to offer some concessions. "Let's face it," said an Israeli diplomat, referring to the Salzburg talks, "when you get the President involved and the meetings are at that level, something has to happen...
...industry is woefully inadequate. Despite sizable subsidies from other Arab nations, the government has been unable to create enough jobs, and in the end has itself become the biggest employer. As a result, the bureaucracy is stupendous, and even the humblest functionaries have become what a Western diplomat calls "masters of creative inefficiency." Government offices that could operate with 500 people are burdened with 2,000. When Sadat decreed an end to censorship of newspapers soon after he became President, he was not lauded as a liberalizer-far from it. A delegation of censors trooped before the publisher of Cairo...
...appears to be, and the fact is that, as a Western diplomat in Beirut put it, "Sadat's game is the only one in town right now." Despite the Israelis' understandable qualms about Sadat, the time may be at hand for Israel-and Egypt as well-to take certain risks: mostly political on Sadat's part, military as well as political on Rabin's. Unless there is some movement, there is a growing danger that the name of the game in the Middle East will once again...
...This conflict is a godsend for the Soviets," said a Western diplomat in Moscow about the Middle East's long no-war, no-peace situation. "If it didn't exist, they would have to invent it." Certainly Moscow has made diplomatic, political and military headway in the Middle East by encouraging unsettled conditions between Israel and the Arab countries. Ever since the U.S. rebuffed Egypt's President Nasser by refusing to sell him weapons in 1955 and, a year later, withdrawing financial aid to build the Aswan High Dam, mammoth development projects and sophisticated Soviet weapons have...
Elsewhere, however, the situation remained cool. Unexpectedly, Assad decided to give the 1,200-man U.N. Disengagement Observer Force on the Golan Heights a full six-month extension. Discussing this surprising move, an Egyptian diplomat suggested that the Syrian ruler "had to renew for six months because he had no Suez Canal to reopen." He was referring to the fact that Sadat, while limiting the U.N. mission in Sinai to three more months to keep pressure on for peace talks, had also decided to reopen the canal next week to emphasize his desire for a settlement. Thus, Assad...