Word: secret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed to place his faith in keeping up a tough battlefield pressure, Rogers put more trust in negotiations. "If they're serious about peace, if they want to talk about it, we're ready," he declared, adding that previous breakthroughs had come about almost entirely in secret negotiations. "That was where the progress was made," he said. Rogers seemed to imply that such private sessions had not yet begun-though reports of them have surfaced in several places. Later he added: "If you want to have secret talks, you pretend you're not having them." Just...
...N.L.F. negotiators heaped scorn on Thieu's offer. For all the obloquy, however, no spokesman for either group flatly refused the offer of private talks, and Western sources privately described the statements as a matter of routine propaganda, entered for the record before the real talks begin in secret-if they have not already...
Less formal discussions, however, have been held. Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon held three secret meetings with Hussein between Sept. 25 and 29 in London. Eban was present at one of these sessions. At one point in this period, Allon also met fruitlessly with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad. It is likely that Eban and Hussein held more private discussions in London in October and January...
Wailing Wall. Given the vitriolic state of Arab-Israeli relations, it was, in a way, remarkable that these secret meetings took place at all-and perhaps not surprising that they produced no results. The Israeli sessions with Hussein at first seemed promising. Hussein agreed to Israeli construction of defense settlements overlooking the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as to a demilitarization of the West Bank area, but he rejected the idea of an Israeli cordon sanitaire along the West Bank. In turn, Israel accepted Hussein's demand that Palestinian refugees who fled the West Bank...
...names were held by the Pope in pectore ("in the heart"), not to be revealed even to the candidates themselves unless and until the Pope chooses to do so. Usually the secret cardinals are from nations with authoritarian regimes, men to whom promotion might mean even more harassment. Pope John XXIII named three and died without disclosing their identities...