Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That his welcome was so resonant everywhere reflected the success of Henry Kissinger in disengaging the combatants of the region's October war. Kissinger's diplomacy, first between Egypt and Israel, then between Syria and Israel, had achieved not only a truce but also the beginnings of trust that a solution might be found to the animosity that has blanketed the area in the quarter-century since the creation of Israel. That trust, for now at least, rests largely in the power of the U.S., which Nixon, for all his difficulties at home, still embodies. Nixon...
...been struggling to achieve for years. What is more, American initiatives have cost the Soviet Union, the Arabs' military, political and economic backer since the mid-'50s, prestige and clout in the Middle East, although the Soviets continue to have a major role in the region (see box page...
...pending foreign aid bill that the Administration has said could go to Syria. But there was no getting away from the tougher subjects that were blocking a general settlement in the Middle East, and Assad gave Nixon the hard line. "No peace can be established in this region," he declared, "unless a real and just solution is found for the Palestinian question." In reply, Nixon said again that he had set out on his tour with no quick solutions to such complex problems. But he added: "Now we must move forward step by step until we reach our goal...
...problem for the Russians, say Soviet analysts, is that they are caught in a dilemma of exquisite subtlety: the more they succeed in supporting a settlement on Arab terms, the more their influence among the Arabs will decline. If there is a settlement in the region, the Arabs will no longer have to depend upon the Soviets for arms, and Soviet influence would lessen. Freed from confrontation with Israel, the Arab states would probably devote more of their energy to internal development...
...west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south. Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks...