Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diplomatic blitz reflected President Carter's determination to revamp the American posture in a region that has long been a backwater of U.S. foreign policy. The three main target areas...
...accompanied Young on part of his tour: "Carter could not have picked a more effective emissary for the diplomatic tone-setting job than Young. He functioned as considerably more than a U.N. ambassador, traveling virtually as an alternate Secretary of State with a retinue of specialists on the region from appropriate agencies, as well as the U.N. mission. No small part of his effectiveness is his own record in the civil rights and anti-Viet Nam War movements. Whether arguing the merits of nonviolent solutions in southern Africa or assuring his listeners that Carter's concern for human rights...
...cracked So last week Vance flew in and it of the familiar way stations of Middle Eastern diplomacy-Alexandria Beirut, Damascus ... En route he heard a revised and promising version of a formula for indirect negotiations between Israel and the Arabs-but in almost no time at all the region's quarreling states proved that this solution would not be acceptable. Thus by week's end, with his eleven-day trip mostly over, all that the top U .S. envoy could say with certainty about Middle East nutcracking was that few world problems have so tough a shell...
Unless Vance, in the time remaining on his tour begins to crack some of the Middle East's hard nuts. Jimmy Carter's optimism will be heavily discounted. Administration officials already have grim forebodings; the region's leaders warn that time is running short. Sadat has said that if this is not the year for peace, hate and war will again be in terrible, senseless ascendancy," while an Israeli Cabinet minister added: "If the situation freezes again, we will face another crisis...
...relations with Third World countries, yet, if he were to be honest and consistent, he would chastise and penalize most of them for their human rights abuses. He wants to ban the sale of conventional arms to a country if the purchase would mean introducing new technology into a region, yet is willing to sell the F-15 fighter jet to Saudi Arabia. He wants to soften the anti-Communist fervor in the U.S., yet he sharply and steadily criticizes the Soviets where they are most vulnerable...