Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they might play in the area. "In terms of U.S. defense priorities, no other region in the world, save for Western Europe, is as important," contends Pines. "It is now almost impossible for a journalist without a defense perspective to analyze events in the Middle East, especially after this settlement...
Even if a settlement on the U.S. compromise proposals can finally be worked out, several other problems will still remain. Among them: guarantees to Israel that its loss of the Sinai oilfields would not deprive it of an adequate oil supply, and a timetable for the exchange of ambassadors between Cairo and Jerusalem. Also to be determined...
...economic and strategic interests than Saudi Arabia. Because of the immense oil wealth of the desert kingdom, its internal stability and its political moderation in Arab affairs, Washington has regarded Riyadh's support for the Camp David accords as vital to the success of any peace settlement. That support has not been forthcoming, despite pleas from Washington and Cairo. Saudi Arabia views any Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty as essentially bilateral and insists that only a comprehensive settlement involving all the confrontation states holds any real prospect for peace. In the meantime, Saudi economic and foreign policies remain a force...
Muzorewa and his two black associates, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Tribal Chief Jeremiah Chirau, need a large voter turnout in order to lend credibility to the election. Along with their white colleague, Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, architect of the country's "internal settlement," they are anxious to counter the intense resistance to the poll being mounted by more than 10,500 guerrillas of the Patriotic Front...
Ironically, the war has expanded since the internal settlement was signed in March 1978. At that time Smith's black nationalist colleagues promised that it would end within weeks. Military and civilian casualties have mounted from 13 a day then to nearly 50 a day now. Last week, for the first time, a park area in Salisbury itself was under a dusk-to-dawn curfew. In the eastern highlands on the Mozambique border, fleeing white farmers have abandoned some 160,000 acres of farm land, or about 10% of the acreage under cultivation; the 6,500 who remain tend...