Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recover by force of diplomacy ever since. For 22 months, Arab foreign policy has been aimed at getting the Israelis out of the occupied territories before their presence is ratified by time and their own efforts to fortify and settle some of the area. The talks on the Middle East that started three weeks ago between the U.S., Russia, Britain and France have given the Arabs hope that the Big Four may achieve what they have not brought about themselves: an Israeli withdrawal. Last week Jordan's King Hussein came to the U.S. to further that cause, in both...
...welcomed the offer, since any sign of yielding by either side in the Middle East has been hard to come by. But Israel, though it will study the plan at a weekend Cabinet meeting, promptly dismissed the six points as nothing more than a "vague smoke screen," a propaganda maneuver designed to lend an air of reasonableness to the Arabs' position. Other points in the plan stipulated that Israel must return all territory, including the Arab sector of Jerusalem, conquered in the 1967 war. This Israel is not prepared to do without a genuine settlement negotiated directly with...
...meeting with Nixon: "President Nixon appears to be determined to exert more pressure on the Israelis than was perhaps true of previous administrations. He wants peace in the Middle East that is just for all sides, and you cannot get it if you blindly support one nation over the others...
...Four meetings: "The Big Four are making good progress. I do not believe they will be deadlocked. I welcome their help and concern in the effort to achieve a just settlement. The major powers have every right to be concerned about the Middle East, since they stand in danger of being drawn into its conflicts...
Though the foreign ministers were gathered to celebrate NATO's 20th anniversary, they used the occasion to discuss how the 15-member alliance* should react to changing technological and political realities, especially to overtures from the East bloc for improved relations. In an address to the delegates, President Nixon came as close as anyone could to summing up NATO's attitude toward its Communist opponents. "All of us are ready as conditions change," said the President, "to turn that fist [of self-defense] into the hand of friendship." But, warned the President, "it is not enough to talk...