Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RICHARD NIXON'S show-the-flag visit to the Mediterranean is an indirect tribute to the boldness of recent Soviet strategy. Since the debacle of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the Russians have managed to challenge the U.S. Sixth Fleet as the paramount naval power in the area, to loosen Washington's already tenuous diplomatic foothold in the Arab world, and to establish a disturbing Communist presence along most of the southern flank of NATO. The Soviets have managed these feats by deploying a large, modern naval force in the Mediterranean, and by artfully cementing relations with regimes...
...Ayub regime had based its legitimacy on the promise that it would eradicate the corruption and the oligarchy of the post-colonial regime; but soon enough, Ayub showed himself to be the despot that he was, instituting a system of indirect elections which allowed the regime to manipulate friendly candidates into popular office. This system, in turn, had the effect of disenfranchising Pakistan's overpopulated and impoverished East wing, which had often been victimized by the financial and industrial centers of Pakistan's west...
...concern of the superpowers reflected the fragility of the Middle East situation. Early last week indirect United Nations negotiations got started under the coldly evenhanded direction of Gunnar Jarring. In the first meeting, Israel's U.N. Delegate Yosef Tekoah reiterated his country's complaint that the Egyptians had broken the terms of the 90-day cease-fire by placing Soviet SAM-2 and SAM3 missiles in position on the west bank of the Suez Canal. Then, in the next breath, he startled Jarring by announcing that he was flying home that very night for consultation with his government...
Possible Offers. Under the terms of the truce agreement, the Jarring talks will be indirect negotiations, each side meeting separately with the U.N. diplomat. His job will be to receive both Arab and Israeli delegations and to explain each one's position to the other. One item of early business is certain to be an exchange of prisoners. Israel is eager to secure the return of its 16 Nationals held as prisoners of war (twelve by Egypt, three by Syria and one by Al-Fatah in Jordan). Israel is holding 119 Arabs, including two prominent Algerians taken last week...
Jarring's determination to remain "an impeccably behaved Western Union messenger," as an observer put it, disturbed some who participated in his unsuccessful round of indirect talks. When he saw that he had the trust of both sides, there is a chance that he might have broken the log jam by expressing his own opinion. But Jarring is convinced that the two sides must find ways of living together of their own accord, and can do so if kept in touch by a determined go-between. In that role Jarring performs heroically: while headquartered on Cyprus during...