Word: settlement
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Archeologists came to accept that Vikings traveled to North America only after material evidence--artifacts such as tools and pottery--and settlement ruins were found in Nova Scotia. But Fell's book includes no hard archeological evidence that has not either been declared a fraud by professional archeologists, established as something other than what Fell says it is, or been considered in the context of a more plausible hypothesis than the one Fell constructs...
...Vance goes to Moscow for talks on arms limitation. After that, he hinted, will come a variety of other meetings-possibly including direct negotiations with Cuba. Later this month the President will send Washington Lawyer (and former Defense Secretary) Clark Clifford to Cyprus, to explore the possibilities for a settlement between Greek and Turkish Cypriots...
...much has changed for Hussein and his Hashemite kingdom since those days. Though the Israelis continue to occupy Jordan's West Bank, there is encouraging movement toward a peace settlement and the possibility, with Hussein's cooperation, of the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians realize that they probably could not survive as a nation without close administrative ties to Jordan, perhaps as an autonomous member of the federation that Hussein once suggested (see box). For one thing, in addition to 700,000 Palestinians on the West Bank...
...optimistic about a peace settlement with Israel this year...
John Edwin Mroz, executive vice president of the International Peace Academy, said yesterday that Fisher's "insight, his understanding of the diplomatic and military dynamics of world politics, and his open-minded approach to options for dispute settlement make him a unique resource to the Academy in its professional work...