Word: settlement
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...spokesmen continued to charge that Carter was coddling the Arabs. So the President found it prudent to meet with 53 American Jewish leaders and assure them in front of reporters that he wanted an Arab commitment to "full diplomatic relations" with Israel as part of a Middle Eastern peace settlement (see following story). But the President's chief problem was new tension in U.S.-Soviet relations, a war of nerves that led some Western diplomats in Moscow to wonder aloud whether the cold war might resume...
...setting boundaries. But to banish some of the Jewish fears about his call for a homeland for the Palestinians, he said that such a haven would have to be a part of Jordan; he did not favor a separate Palestinian state, which could be a threat to peace. A settlement, he stressed, cannot be imposed; it must be negotiated. During a time of crisis, however, there would be no withholding of U.S. arms from Israel "while I am President." On all this, Carter said he was speaking for what he called the strong national consensus on Israel...
...House wanted to burst whatever illusions Begin might harbor about the U.S. position. To achieve that, of course, the statement need not have been public. But the Administration also wanted to preserve its role as mediator by emphasizing the distance between its view of the shape of a possible settlement and Jerusalem's. Moreover, Begin's line is now being vocally defended by many U.S. Jews, which is causing growing friction between the White House and the American Jewish community. Thus the State Department broadside was also intended as a reply to a speech by New York Republican...
...Washington, nine Senators, including Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Sparkman, Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, wrote a careful letter of "support" to Carter, which nevertheless reminded him of the U.S. commitment to Israel's security and endorsed the idea of a nonimposed settlement. The State Department message, insisted Assistant Secretary Alfred Atherton, was "certainly not intended as a threat of any sort" to Israel. At his press conference Carter declared a Washington moratorium on any "additional comments on specifics" about the Middle East until Begin's visit, adding a promise that the Israeli...
Drawing conclusions about the court's past term is not easy. The Justices' drift tends to be rightward, favoring property rights and turning cautious in providing redress for the poor. The court generally opposes judicial activism, favoring legislative settlement of conflicts. This year, at least, it has made no real landmark decisions, and law professors tend to judge it harshly. "The court is without leadership." says the University of Chicago's Philip Kurland. "It's run by a five-man center" (Stewart, White, Blackmun, Powell and Stevens). The University of Virginia's A.E. Dick Howard...