Word: settlement
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...often called "the minefield" of the Middle East?the Palestinian problem. Besides humiliating Hussein by rejecting Jordan's somewhat tenuous historical claims to sovereignty over the West Bank, the Arab endorsement of the P.L.O. placed Israel in an agonizing dilemma. The Israelis have steadfastly insisted that any future settlement involving the West Bank must involve Jordan; they have refused even to consider discussions with what Premier Yitzhak Rabin has described as "terrorist organizations whose avowed aim is Israel's destruction." The Rabat decision seemed to mean that there could be no negotiations on the West Bank?and for that matter...
...Paris talks. Thieu's response has been to selectively beat up demonstrators. No right-wingers have been injured to date, although two left-liberal priests were severely beaten last week. Thoi Bao Ga, a Cambridge-based Vietnamese monthly, argues that liberalization by the regime will lead necessarily to a settlement at the talks, followed by Thieu's ouster. If the Americans don't get to him first...
...hardliners, such as Iraq and Libya, insist that only armed struggle can persuade Israel to yield. Syria's President Hafez Assad was willing to negotiate a settlement but insisted that it be a once-and-for-all deal worked out in a Geneva conference. Then there were the moderates, headed by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat who supports U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's gradualist approach-"a little more territory for a little more peace...
Achieving a peace settlement in the Middle East has begun to resemble the allegorical journey of a thousand miles...
GREECE'S WITHDRAWAL FROM NATO: We withdrew from NATO's military alliance when, to our great sorrow, NATO's weakness became patently clear -it could not prevent armed conflict be tween two of its members. If NATO contributes positively toward the settlement of the Cyprus question-contributes satisfactorily from Greece's point of view, that is-then it would be possible for Greece to reconsider its stand toward NATO. [The alliance, Caramanlis suggested, must unanimously condemn Turkish aggression, and pressure Turkey to accept less than 40% of Cyprus...