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...must involve Jordan; they have refused even to consider discussions with what Premier Yitzhak Rabin has described as "terrorist organizations whose avowed aim is Israel's destruction." The Rabat decision seemed to mean that there could be no negotiations on the West Bank?and for that matter no overall settlement???unless the Palestinian question, meaning the P.L.O., was faced directly...
Then it was North Viet Nam's turn. Fearful that the settlement???which it evidently wanted very badly?might collapse, Hanoi mounted a frenzied campaign to pressure Washington into carrying it through. The North Vietnamese made direct appeals to Peking and Moscow to urge Washington to complete the negotiations. North Vietnamese diplomats in East European capitals called on Hanoi's Communist allies for similar third-party support...
...certain dangers implicit in the tour. Simply by winging about the area in a great blue and white presidential 707, Rogers raised hopes that he would break the diplomatic logjam. If there is no progress?either on the Suez plan or the broader issue of an overall Arab-Israeli settlement???the U.S. can expect some harsh criticism. Rogers only fueled that feeling when he said last week: "There has never been, and may not again be for a long time to come, a better opportunity than exists today to move toward a just and lasting peace." Said Assistant Secretary...
...realize that the future of the Arab world depended on one key achievement: a solution to the 22-year-old Palestinian problem and the status of Israel. After a series of defeats at the hands of the Israelis, he finally concluded that there could be no lasting military settlement???even though he often acted as if that were the only answer to the problem. The Palestinian solution, he would say in private conversations, depended not on war but on the emergence of "a new Arab who would sweep away the old world of sheiks and sultans and kings. Only when...
...leave Rosemary and join The Detective; she wouldn't. By night he telephoned her to say that he couldn't live without her; by day he planned divorce proceedings. Mia heard about them not from her husband but from his attorney. Coolly she announced that she wanted no financial settlement???which apparently stunned the singer more than a countersuit for a million. After the lawyer's visit, she took Sinatra's private plane to Los Angeles?where she found an airport full of reporters who could only have been tipped off by Sinatra's associates. Terrified, Mia talked the pilot...