Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American President. Addressing graduating midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy last week, Nixon noted that the October war of last year made it "clear to us and clear to the moderate leadership of the Arab world that a positive American role was indispensable to achieving a permanent settlement in the Middle East." Referring to Kissinger's successful efforts in breaking the Israeli stalemate with Egypt and Syria, Nixon said: "What seemed to be an insurmountable roadblock has now been removed, and we are determined to stay on course until we have reached our goal of a permanent peace...
...major threat to Nixon is considered to be those Palestinian terrorists who want to wreck any chance of a peace settlement in the Middle East because they fear that it will ignore their claims to statehood. U.S. intelligence officials report that three planned attempts on Kissinger's life were aborted in Syria during his recent negotiations...
...Nixon's first stop after a brief rest in Austria will be Egypt, the most powerful of the Arab countries and the most eager to be firm friends again with the U.S. President Anwar Sadat, who has bet the survival of his regime on working out a peace settlement with America's help, plans to meet the President at the Cairo International Airport on Wednesday and then ride with him in a motorcade through a welcoming crowd expected to be at least 1 million strong. Anxious to show off his prize guests even more-they are the living...
...mind-boggling scheme to speed up Jupiter's rotation enough to tear off chunks of the planet; they would then be assembled in a thick band in orbit around the sun. The debris would reflect useful solar energy back toward earth and could also be used for human settlement...
...have reduced the number of men's suits produced from a high of 21.8 million units in 1965 to 16.7 million last year. At week's end both sides were meeting in Washington with Federal Mediator W.J. Usery Jr., but there were no signs of an imminent settlement...