Word: premier
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...Until America faces up to the unpleasant reality that the land in question is rightfully Palestinian, no number of treaties or summits will achieve lasting peace in the Middle East. The only positive results of the recent summit will be new drains on the U.S. taxpayer to coax Premier Begin to give up a few Israeli settlements in the Sinai...
...greatest danger was that the conflict would provoke Israeli intervention on behalf of the reeling Christians. Seeking to prevent the war from spreading, Jimmy Carter sent an appeal to Assad in Moscow, urging him toward "a separation of forces." He followed up by asking Israeli Premier Menachem Begin to refrain from intervening in the conflict. Carter also asked Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to exert his "considerable influence in the area" to help arrange a truce. At the urging of the U.S., the U.N. Security Council adopted a cease-fire resolution...
...lingering complications from the Maryland summit was an unresolved dispute between Carter and Begin about Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Washington insisted that the Premier had promised there would be no new settlements for five years-the transitional period during which Palestinians will begin to enjoy a period of limited self-rule. Begin, however, insisted that he had pledged to maintain the moratorium on the settlements for only three months. In tacit agreement that it was far better to get on with the peace process, neither Washington nor Jerusalem last week tried to trumpet the differences in viewpoint...
...split could cause Begin trouble at home, although the Premier now has strong support from Israelis, 82% of whom, according to one poll, "absolutely believe" that peace with Egypt will occur within a year. Apart from a small number of dissidents who oppose any dealings with Israel, Sadat also has popular backing at home. Even conservative Muslims, reported TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, consider that "it is right to have peace with people of the book," as Jews and Christians are also considered by Islamic scholars. Cairo's strategy, as a result, will be to proceed unilaterally with...
Investigators in Rome were having no luck getting information from Corrado Alunni, 30, a prime suspect in the kidnap-murder of former Premier Aldo Moro. Alunni has brushed off every question by reciting the terrorist version of name, rank and serial number: "I consider myself a fighting Communist and a political prisoner in a state concentration camp and do not intend to collaborate with this system of justice." Even so, the probe into Alunni's recent whereabouts shed some light on the sybaritic life-style that Europe's leftist outlaws can occasionally afford. Not long before his arrest...