Word: hope
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What had gone wrong? There had been forebodings for several days that the peace initiative was running into serious trouble. In two interviews on the eve of the Foreign Ministers' conference, Sadat had predicted that there was "absolutely no hope" of reaching an agreement. When the two sides began quibbling over how to word the Palestinian issue on the agenda, Vance briefly delayed his trip to Jerusalem as a signal to the Israelis and the Egyptians that they had to work harder on a compromise. The agenda problem was settled when the Israelis agreed to define the subject...
...Sinai is returned to Egypt. Prior to that promise, the settlers in Yamit were in an angry mood. The town is the one with the greatest expectations for growth. It now has a population of 1,500, divided almost equally between civilian residents and military families; the settlers hope that their seaside community will eventually become a regional center...
...discussed the problems of Middle East peacemaking with Wynn. "If these talks fail," the King predicted, "we are then at the end of the road, the end of Resolution 242, the end of Resolution 338 [the broad United Nations Security Council blueprint for peace] the end of hope for peace. We will be heading for disaster in terms of this area and the whole world...
...many in the Arab world, a step forward to bring things to a head." But, he added, "so far, we have no confidence that Sadat will be met by a similar response from Israel. Frankly, after all these years of trying hard to see any glimmer of hope, I am not optimistic...
Despite these reservations, however, most of the people in Lake Placid are working hard to make the Olympics a success in the hope that the Games will boost the village's tourist trade in the years to come. Their efforts are understandable. The village's first Olympics in 1932 put Lake Placid on the country's winter sports map; the 1980 Games could change the map itself...