Word: settlement
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More than any past President, Jimmy Carter has committed the prestige of his office to a Middle East settlement. While he has raised Arab hopes-perhaps to an unrealistic level-he has also aroused distrust and anger in Israel and among many of its fervent supporters in the U.S. The significance of the issue reaches beyond domestic politics and even beyond the Middle East itself, for it illustrates the weaknesses of Carter's approach to world affairs generally: too public and too often contradictory...
...Jews are hardly unanimous in their criticisms. Some are afraid that the new ultranationalist Premier-designate Menachem Begin-who will visit Washington next month-may make a settlement all the harder to achieve. Despite their growing unease with Carter, many Jews are still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Says Max Palevsky, a top Los Angeles Democratic Party fund raiser: "There haven't been enough attempts at moderation, and any prodding in that direction by Carter, anything that gets movement, is all to the good." But the critics are more numerous and more impassioned. Recalling that...
There is a large white nation here (more than 4 million whites, as against 270,000 in Rhodesia and 300,000 in preindependence Angola). Besides, white men established the first permanent settlement at the Cape long before blacks arrived in large numbers. True...
...America hope and work for? The quick abolition of apartheid and far more rapid economic advancement for blacks. It should not, for the present, demand one man, one vote. To do so, as Vice President Walter Mondale seemed to, means in effect writing off any hope of a peaceful settlement. One man, one vote only antagonizes virtually all white South Africans, convinces them that the U.S. is neither serious nor reasonable and that they might as well go down fighting. For the near term, some form of qualified black suffrage should be the goal. Even most black spokesmen in South...
...that any significant political concession would, in Vorster's word, "swamp" them? Wouldn't they try to hold on to what they built (with black labor, of course)? And yet the longer real change is delayed, the harder it will be to achieve any sort of moderate settlement or work out a partnership between black and white. Right now that may still be possible-just barely. The situations are different, but Rhodesia's Ian Smith could have had a much better deal, with a moderate black regime, ten years ago than he can possibly have...