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Understandably, Kissinger was looking forward to his return this week to the Middle East and one possibly final try at working out a lasting settlement between the Israelis and the Arabs. The Secretary nowadays is much more confident on the road than in Washington. Crowds gather in hotel lobbies to applaud his entrance. Heads of state trust him and welcome the very personal, secretive brand of diplomacy that is under attack at home...
Amid all the frank talk, shapes of a possible second-stage settlement emerged last week. Although Egypt clearly cannot make a non-belligerence pledge at this point for fear of alienating other Arab nations, Kissinger envisages the two sides agreeing to an aide-memoire that would spell out further steps both sides would take in the disengagement process. The U.S., or possibly the United Nations, might serve as a guarantor of peace between Egypt and Israel until such time as relationships "normalize." After returning to Washington last week, Kissinger ordered studies on the ramifications of an American peace guarantee, which...
Essential to any Middle East peace deal is U.S. support, or lack of support, for Israel and possible American willingness to guarantee a settlement. These questions were explored in an opinion survey completed last week for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White Inc. Some of the results based on a national probability sample of 1,046 adults...
Abdule Hamid Sharaf said that since the Yom Kippur War, the Arabs have been increasingly ready to accept a settlement based on what he called "limited objectives"--Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories and restoration of rights for Palestinians...
...Greek-Cypriot sense of betrayal could hardly have been deeper. Earlier in the week Archbishop Makarios, the prelate President of the constitutional Cyprus government, had approved a plan that would have created a "substantial" Turkish zone in northern Cyprus-a major concession-and would have allowed permanent settlement of Turkish refugees in the north. Glafkos Clerides, negotiator for the Greek Cypriots, insisted that major areas now under Turkish occupation must be restored to Greek control in order that some of the Greek refugees might be resettled...