Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab states, at least, are once more moving toward broader peace negotiations. Not only in Damascus, Cairo and Riyadh but even in Washington, Middle East observers are now saying that sizable steps toward peace must occur in 1977. If they do not, Palestinian leaders now receptive to a settlement may be replaced by less moderate ones who are still determined to destroy Israel in what they see as the only solution to the Middle East's problems...
...President Sadat of Egypt has launched a peace offensive aimed at a negotiated settlement with Israel. To what extent will you cooperate...
Israel's most secure border-the one facing Lebanon-has unexpectedly become its most volatile. While the rest of civil-war-torn Lebanon was quiet last week, intermittent mortar fire continued in the south between the Moslem town of Bint Jebail and the Christian settlement of Ain Ebel. Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, meanwhile, insisted that his forces were free to regroup in that area (see following story). Israel so opposes this, as well as the idea of having Syrian soldiers on a second Israeli border-even as Arab peace keepers-that the Jerusalem government convened its "war cabinet," deployed...
...Sadat predicts a 1977 Geneva Conference to reach an Arab-Israel settlement. Will the P.L.O. attend...
...feels that the British should simply get out of Northern Ireland. We think that's a dangerous view," says Hume. "Everybody wants troops removed. No one likes soldiers on their streets. But the people who are prudent and wise want troops removed in the context of a political settlement so that there's something left behind to insure that there's peace and order." A short year ago, Leon and Jill Uris wrote, "There is no way that the British could continue as a respected people after a desertion that could bring civil war." Today, Hume claims, that desertion--respectable...