Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Geneva settlement is like a tall mountain, full of crevices and sharp rocks. Therefore, you don 't go to it in a straight line. You go through zigs and zags. You even go down a little bit, then you keep moving. As long as you know where you're going, that's what's important. And we know where we're going. We know we 've got to make zigs and zags...
...Administration launched its renewed peace drive when Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko issued a 700-word joint declaration that brought Moscow back into the Middle East peace picture. The unique declaration called for a comprehensive Middle East settlement, to include Israel's withdrawal from occupied territory, termination of a state of war, and the "resolution of the Palestinian question." The U.S. thus agreed formally that the Palestinians had "legitimate rights" in any settlement...
...obvious to me that there can be no Middle Eastern peace settlement without adequate Palestinian representation." So said President Carter at his Washington press conference, echoing a theme he had stated many times before...
...United Nations, the U.S. joined the U.S.S.R. for the first time in a commitment "ensuring the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people"-a formulation that was bound to further enrage the Israelis. On the other hand, the Soviets joined the Americans in accepting the Israeli contention that a settlement in the Middle East must mean more than just an end to belligerency. It must also involve, the Soviets agreed, "establishment of normal peaceful relations...
...Harvard history department and author of Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History (1963); of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. From 1923 until his retirement in 1957, he taught a famous course-known to generations of students as "Wagon Wheels" or "Cowboys and Indians"-that traced the settlement of the American West...