Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Connally grounds his views in nationalism: we should begin to support policies based on "American Interests"--not on the interests of the Jewish lobby. This logic makes the entire proposal invidious. Connally charges that unpatriotic Jews in Washington are trying to prevent the completion of a Middle East settlement. In effect, Connally proposes that it is high time we unhooked the Jewish lobby yoke from aroung the American neck and we begin to pursue our real national interests...
...immigrants who settled in Rhodesia after the 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence; pensions for former officials of the Salisbury regime; and compensation for any property seized by a future Zimbabwe government. Carrington promised to study the document, but insisted that his plan was the only possible basis for settlement and gave the guerrillas another 48 hours to accept...
...diplomats jostled with all the rest to see him, John Paul showed his intellectual side, his 61-minute speech ranged over a variety of topics tied together tightly by sequential reasoning. The headline-catching bits ? an assertion that overall peace in the Middle East must include "a just settlement of the Palestinian question," a call for a "special statute" to assure the preservation of Jerusalem as a city holy to the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths ? were really incidental notes...
...managing the conclusion of any crisis, perhaps the most critical moment occurs when the opponent appears ready to settle; then it is the natural temptation to relax. This is almost always a mistake; the time for conciliation is after the crisis is surmounted and a settlement or modus vivendi has been reached...
Otherwise moderation may abort the hopeful prospects by raising last-minute doubts as to whether the cost of settlement need be paid. Stopping offensive military actions in Korea in 1951 when cease-fire talks started almost surely prolonged the talks; I would make the same argument about the Viet Nam bombing halt in 1968, though I held a different view at the time...