Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From this minisummit, Carter would head to Geneva for a half-day meeting with Syrian President Hafez Assad on the prospects for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. An intensely proud man, Assad is the only Middle East leader who declined an invitation to Washington; he even balked at meeting Carter in London. The President, however, apparently decided that it would be worth going the extra half-step to see Assad, the only major Arab chieftain with lines open to the Soviets...
Until this moment in 1915, the white colonials in the outpost have been on congenial terms with a nearby, equally unaware German settlement. Now they work themselves into a froth of jingoism and decide they must attack their neighbors. More precisely-and this touches one of the film's controlling ironies-they decide their black natives must attack the Germans' natives...
Jerusalem, in Israeli terms, is nonnegotiable. Elsewhere in the occupied territories, 80 Israeli settlements have been established with more on the way. Two weeks ago, Israel's government authorized the first official settlement in Masha, not far from an unauthorized, thriving settlement that Jewish hard-liners of the Gush Enumin (Group of the Faithful) set up at Kaddum. The Israeli government intends to establish at least eight more settlements in occupied territory within the next year...
...hectares (104 million acres) of Alaska's 150 million hectares (375 million acres) -an area the size of New England, New York and Pennsylvania-for economic development, but it ignored the claims of an estimated 77,000 native Alaskan Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians. The 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act resolved this problem by awarding the natives $962 million in cash and some 17.6 million hectares (44 million acres) of their own. The act further directed the Interior Department to designate up to 32 million hectares (80 million acres) as potential national parks and monuments, wildlife refuges and wild...
...Polaroid filed a patent-infringement suit against Kodak's cameras; the two companies are engaged in informal talks that could lead to an out-of-court settlement...