Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recall how it reacted during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had sent two messages to John F. Kennedy, one truculent, the other conciliatory. At the urging of his brother Robert, President Kennedy decided to ignore the first and reply to the second, and a settlement swiftly followed (see THE PRESS...
Looking beyond Viet Nam and the "honorable settlement" that both Nixon and Humphrey have called for, what of the future? Nixon does not disagree with Humphrey's argument that the U.S. "cannot play the role of global gendarme." But neither man clearly explains just how the U.S. should defend its foreign allies and interests. To draw a specific perimeter of defense would obviously encourage aggressors to grab anything on the other side of the line. Still, the candidates could at least specify which areas they regard as vital to American security, while just as clearly reserving a right...
...negotiate with Jarring a "timetable" to put into effect the U.N. Middle East resolution passed last November. In effect, it called for both Israeli troop withdrawals and Arab recognition of the right of every state in the area "to live in peace." The Egyptians also said that once a settlement was achieved, Israeli ships would be permitted the use of the Suez Canal...
...gaps, Israeli opinion has only hardened against any return to the prewar boundaries. At the same time, any Arab government that tried to sign a peace treaty now would have to answer to the increasingly powerful and hard-lining Palestinian commandos. Given continued Soviet lack of interest in a settlement, any peace remains a remote prospect...
...hopes for an honorable settlement of the war in Viet Nam rest on a stable, representative South Vietnamese government, able to carry an increasing burden of the fighting and, within reason, hold its own politically once peace comes a chilling hours last week, those hopes seemed about to be dashed to bits. Rumors of a military coup against the elected government of President Nguyen Van Thieu swept through Sai gon and the Vietnamese armed forces were ordered on full alert. All the night marish instability of 1960-65, with all its coups and coup attempts, seemed about to begin again...