Word: settlement
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...Lebanon to end "savage massacres" and remove a roadblock in the way of a Geneva conference, is currently the key figure in the peacemaking. In a 90-minute interview in Damascus with TIME's Wilton Wynn last week, he outlined his views on terms and timing of a settlement, on Palestinian participation, and on the need for the U.S. to be still more evenhanded in its Middle East dealings. Excerpts from the interview...
...What about settlement terms...
...were willing to give Richard better than even odds on success. There has been little progress toward a Rhodesian settlement since last fall, when Kissinger's whirlwind mission established the fragile basis for talks in Geneva between Prime Minister Ian Smith's white-dominated regime and four black nationalist leaders-Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole (TIME, Nov. 15). For seven frustrating weeks Richard, as chairman of the conference, tried to coax the participants beyond acrimonious haggling. With almost nothing accomplished, the talks recessed for the holidays...
Richard remains a determined optimist. This week he plans to revisit Rhodesia and South Africa. Said he at a Pretoria press conference: "I am convinced that in the end we will get a settlement to this problem." Other British diplomats are not so buoyant. Complained one last week: "It's a fearful slog. Both sides, black and white, are tossing tantrums and refusing to talk common sense. If Ivor gets anywhere with these adamant chaps he should have a medal...
...husband," lamented Euripedes' Medea in a sigh of woe that is as valid today as it was 2,500 years ago. No fewer than 32 articles of the modern Greek civil code govern and define the antique institution of the dowry -the practice of bestowing a property settlement on a daughter as an inducement to marriage. Now, however, Greece's time-honored system of mandatory dowries is under attack. Legislative pressure for its abolition comes chiefly from the seven women in Greece's 300-member Parliament. A draft law doing away with dowries has been written...