Word: settlement
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...participant in many Viet Nam War decisions, Brown in March 1968 advised stepped-up bombing to force the Communists to negotiate a settlement. At that time other strategists were urging the U.S. to wind down the war. Last week he described the war in retrospect as "a tragic time in which many mistakes were made-and I was not without my share of them...
Classic Guerrillas. The war shows no sign of ending, reports Beckwith, even though Morocco and Mauritania have lost about 1,000 men since last February. Other Arab governments-notably Saudi Arabia-have tried to work out a diplomatic settlement, so far without success. Supplied with East Bloc arms by Libya and Algeria, Polisario is able to struggle on from sanctuaries near the Algerian border town of Tindouf, where about 40,000 Saharoui refugees live in 22 camps. By helping the guerrillas, President Houari Boumedienne is able to keep a third of Archenemy King Hassan's Moroccan armed forces tied...
...Louisiana, that and other foreign claims had been effectively undermined by the great western movement of Americans and the free communities they quickly founded. But the consolidation of their pioneering achievements was made possible by those negotiations and by subsequent diplomatic successes. The annexation of Florida, the Oregon boundary settlement with Great Britain, the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the Gadsden Purchase, the purchase of Alaska from Russia−all were triumphs of diplomacy during decades when most citizens believed America did not have, or need, a foreign policy...
Disillusionment set in as the outcome of the war necessarily fell short of expectations, and indeed as the one-sided nature of the peace required ever greater efforts to maintain it against countries with no stake in the settlement. A tide of isolationist sentiment rose, in which moral proclamations were coupled with an unwillingness to undertake concrete commitments. We were loath to face a world of imperfect security, alliances of convenience, recurrent crises and the need for a political structure that would secure the peace...
...with the ambassador, and after the split in Qatar, Vance praised the Saudis' "courageous and statesmanlike" action. Yamani, for his part, declared, "We expect the West, especially the United States, to show appreciation for what we have done." The U.S., he said, could indicate gratitude by working toward "settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict," presumably by leaning on Israel to make concessions...