Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arabs talked of peace and hailed 1977 as the year for a Middle East settlement. Israelis warned of war as they watched Syrian peace-keeping forces in Lebanon inch closer to the country's southern border. Both sides in the Middle East conflict seemed sincere enough last week in their expressions of hope and fear. But it was also clear that both were engaged in a certain amount of posturing-aimed not so much at each other as at the incoming Administration in Washington...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat spearheaded the Arab peace initiative. Convinced that only the U.S. can work out a Middle East settlement, he hopes to win the same kind of support from President-Elect Jimmy Carter that he had from Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Sadat also intends to make the prospect of ending the state of war so attractive to the West that the Israelis will have to accept. As one Egyptian official put it last week, "If the Israelis appear to be refusing to end the war, I wonder if they can again get $5 billion from the American...
...civil war. For another, the October Arab summits at Riyadh and Cairo left Western-oriented moderates-principally Sadat, Syrian President Hafez Assad and Saudi Arabia's King Khalid -in undisputed control over Arab strategy. The so-called rejectionists like Iraq and Libya, which oppose a permanent settlement with Israel, emerged largely discredited...
...Syrians, moreover, have even been able to put diplomatic pressure on the battered Palestine Liberation Organization. In what Arab sources interpreted as a bitter concession, the Palestinians last week accepted a "half-a-loaf" settlement they had consistently refused when the U.N. General Assembly voted 90 to 16 in favor of establishing a separate Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. Previously, the Palestinians had always vowed that they would accept nothing less than the elimination of Israel as a state...
...been that the employer becomes very civic-minded, very patriotic and says, 'No, I can't give you any more than a certain percentage.' " Moreover, when there are no guidelines, manufacturers are able to set high prices and union leaders are freer to strike for hefty settlements without arousing a public outcry or getting into an argument with the President. Without the Ford Administration committing itself one way or the other, 80,000 General Motors workers last week walked out of 16 plants for a few hours and won a settlement that GM called "the most expensive...