Word: direct
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...time last week, in fact, it seemed that Nasser was offering a peace feeler. Speaking with reporters at the U.N., Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad was understood to say that his country would negotiate directly with Israel-even before the Israelis withdrew from Arab lands. Later Riad denied saying anything about direct talks, but he did say that Israel and Egypt were engaged in "Rhodes-type" negotiations. This approach was used in the 1948-49 peace talks on the island of Rhodes, where the Arabs and Israelis, for the record at least, never directly faced each other. Proposals...
...Direct Talks. In Washington, Mrs. Meir repeated the negotiation terms on which the Israelis insist: either direct talks with the Arabs or none at all. She is especially adamant in her refusal to recognize any effort by the Soviet Union to arrange peace terms. This puts her at odds with the Nixon Administration, which believes that the Russians-as equippers of the Arabs -must play a part in peace as in war. Thus, when Secretary of State William Rogers met on two occasions last week with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, the Middle East was high on their agenda. Moscow...
...note appeared under the black student's door after a House meeting at which he had voiced support for last week's attack on the Center for International Studies. His comment started a heated discussion at the meeting. "The KKK note seemed a direct response to what went on at the meeting." Buhl said...
...crucial provision of the bill, which has already passed the Senate, forbids the Defense Department to carry out any research unless it "has a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function or operation." Most of the $4.2 million Harvard received in Defense Department grants last year goes for so called "pure research" projects which have no direct military application...
Washington sources and Harvard officials expressed the view yesterday that while the provision will probably become law, the Defense Department might circumvent it by defining all their research grants as having a direct military application. They added, however, that if the Department adopts this stance, Congress may act again with even tighter controls...