Word: settlement
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...down his cheeks, Archbishop Makarios returned to Cyprus, five months after he had been ousted as the island's President by the Greek military junta's coup d'état. A crowd of 200,000, shouting "Makarios! Makarios!" welcomed him and offered its support for a settlement between Greeks and Turks. "Proceed, proceed," the crowd chanted. "The people are with you." Though he would never accept a partition of the island, Makarios said, "it is possible to safeguard the rights of both Greeks and Turks...
While the archbishop's return poses problems for Cyprus, a viable settlement without him is out of the question. The wily prelate, who has been President since 1960, commands wide popular support, and he is fully aware that he holds the key to a permanent solution. As he reportedly told U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Washington, "I cannot do anything about the settlement that is made on Cyprus by the superpowers, but it is well within my power to destroy what you decide...
...release of Palestinian prisoners and also embarrass the more moderate P.L.O. were detained in a Tunisian jail. P.L.O. agents swooped down elsewhere to grab 26 other dissidents. They were accused of supporting a breakaway group called "the Arab Nationalist Youth Organization for the Liberation of Palestine," which opposes any settlement short of destruction of Israel...
About 35,000 of the union's members voted against the new settlement President Arnold R. Miller negotiated for them. But, most significantly, more than 40,000 miners didn't vote at all. The vote was the first rank-and-file referendum on a contract in UMW history, fulfilling Miller's 1972 election pledge to open up the hitherto autocratic ratification process...
Such an approach would be to Israel's advantage-probably her salvation-because there can be no lasting security for that beleaguered community without a settlement, and there can be no settlement without withdrawal...