Word: settlement
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...Middle East was going through a spell of war jitters last week, another period of tension of the kind that has afflicted it since last spring. The basic reason was the absence of any fresh movement toward a peace settlement, and the reluctance of the principals to negotiate boldly toward achieving that end. The symptoms were a spate of new incidents of border righting between the Israelis and the fedayeen and a disturbing rise in the reckless rhetoric...
...more than a decade is beginning to break up at last. Last week Prime Minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia, the bastion of white-settler power that broke free of British rule in 1965, announced that he had agreed to attend a constitutional conference that could lead to a settlement with Britain-and, eventually, to black-majority rule in Britain's breakaway colony. Smith also told his startled countrymen in a televised speech that the African independence movements that have waged a sporadic terrorist campaign against Rhodesia for the past nine years have agreed to a ceasefire. In return, Smith...
...vowed at the time that South Africa's critics would be surprised "at where the country will stand in six to twelve months." In the meantime, according to diplomatic observers, Vorst laid it on the line to Ian Smith: unless Smith would work actively toward achieving a Rhodesian settlement South Africa would consider withdrawing its antiguerrilla police, who help the Rhodesians maintain order along the Zambezi River boundary between Rhodesia and Zambia...
...showed that much of the Third World, as well as Europe and the Communist bloc, still explicitly acknowledges Israel's right to exist. If both Israelis and Palestinians can some how get that message, the U.N. debate may well have helped, not hindered, prospects for a Middle East settlement...
...Such a settlement will almost certainly involve some kind of federation between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities, perhaps in the form of a union of Swiss-style cantons. Before returning home last week, Makarios conferred in Athens for two days with Greek Premier Constantino Caramanlis and Glafkos Clerides, who has been Acting Cypriot President in his absence. The three leaders reportedly agreed in principle that conditions for a federation should include 1) the right of the 180,000 Greek Cypriot refugees to return to their homes in Turkish-occupied parts of the island; 2) Turkish withdrawal to a territorial...