Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department Correspondent Strobe Talbott, "then official sources are more likely to let information out to tell their side of the story." Last week, Talbott noted, "was a classic case of negotiations becoming leakproof as all sides moved closer to agreement." In Jerusalem, Bureau Chief Donald Neff assessed the impending settlement's durability in talks with a hawk-to-dove spectrum of Israeli leaders...
...prospects for a settlement in the Middle East rise and fall as erratically as the Dow Jones averages. Last week the peace market suddenly turned bullish. Failure to agree on a Sinai pact would simply be "unthinkable," said an Egyptian official. "Let's get it over with," Israeli Chief of Staff Lieut. General Mordechai Gur added gruffly...
When Henry Kissinger's last effort at shuttle diplomacy broke down last March, hopes for peace plummeted, and many diplomatic analysts predicted a new war by 1976. But so swiftly have negotiations progressed in the past month that by last week all sides were forecasting a new interim settlement between Egypt and Israel by Sept...
American discussions with the Egyptians were equally crucial, if less intense, and President Anwar Sadat was satisfied that his country had got what it wanted. "Last March, Israel blocked Kissinger's attempt to mediate a Sinai settlement in order to force the Secretary into resigning," he said. "The Israelis thought a new Secretary of State would take office and require six months to study the file of the case. And by the time the six months were up, we would be in the American presidential election year and nothing would happen...
Though some problems remain that could turn success into failure, the outline of the Sinai settlement is already clear. The prospects are that the agreement will follow these lines...