Word: settlement
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...years. Just 72 hours after he telephoned Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to invite himself to Cairo, Carter was on the banks of the Nile. It was a daring attempt to use the prestige of the U.S. presidency to end the months-long stalemate blocking an Egyptian-Israeli peace settlement. Even though the search for a Middle East ac cord has claimed more of the President's time than any other issue, last week's jour ney, in the words of Presidential Assistant Hamilton Jordan, demonstrated Carter's willingness to go "the final, extra mile." The goal, of course, was momentous...
Such military planning, however, would become far less urgent if the peace process on which Carter has risked so much of his personal prestige eventually led to a comprehensive Middle East settlement. That may be a dream requiring years to fulfill, but a reconciliation between Israel and Egypt is almost certainly the first big step. In those terms, Carter's "extra mile" does not seem an unworthy gamble...
Behind the pageantry and the politicking, the Americans and Egyptians were working on the issues still stalling the peace settlement. Involved in various aspects of the bargaining was the platoon of advisers accompanying Carter. In addition to Vance, they included Brzezinski, Defense Secretary Harold Brown and U.S. Envoy Roy Atherton. White House officials had been careful not to encourage hopes of success. On the flight to Cairo, a senior presidential aide stressed that Carter was "not particularly" optimistic and was "well aware of the fact that it is much easier for things to go wrong than to go right." This...
...invaders stopped dead in their tracks. Radio Peking announced that "on its own initiative" China was declaring a ceasefire. Chinese troops pulled back from the front, in some cases by as much as 60 miles. It was all being done, the Chinese boasted, so that a speedy "peaceful settlement of the boundary question" that had touched off the month-long conflict could be worked...
...that they might be confiscated under court orders. Now the U.S. has agreed to free blocked Chinese bank accounts totaling $80.5 million, and Peking has agreed to pay just that amount against 384 separate American claims totaling $196.9 million. The China payout is about 41? on the dollar, a settlement that is high by the standards of other similar U.S.-Communist pacts, but which is worth only about 15? per dollar in 1949 terms. The pact will permit the U.S. to help China with its development plan...