Word: settlement
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...adamant. Even before he took off last week for a summit conference with Jimmy Carter, Israel's flinty Premier made it clear that he was not planning any concessions to anyone, anywhere, under any pressure. If he accepted the new U.S. proposals for an Israeli-Egyptian peace settlement, he declared, there would no longer be any peace treaty. "It would in fact turn into a treaty of war," he said. "And war needs no treaties; in war, cannons are needed." Arriving at Andrews Air Force Base 14 hours later, he remained just as stern as ever. Said Begin...
Crediting the Carter administration with "doing its best" to bring about a peaceful settlement in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), Chinamano--whose trip to the U.S. is sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations--charged the U.S. with failing to convince Prime Minister Ian Smith of the "realities of the situation...
Five days before South Africa rejected the United Nation's peace-keeping proposals for Namibia, Richard Moose, assistant secretary of state for African Affairs sat back in his chair at the Faculty Club and termed the prognosis for a settlement this week, "guarded...
Moose said the greatest U.S. leverage at this point lies in convincing the South African government that a settlement in Namibia is in its own interest. With a Namibian settlement, Moose said, the South Africans can be assured that "at least on that border they aren't going to be faced with a growing military confrontation, and these won't be the spillover effect of that into South Africa itself...
Moose said last week that the outcome of the Namibia settlement may have an "important bearing" on a U.S. decision to recognize Angola. He said the U.S. is pleased with the Angolans for their effort to get a settlement in Namibia, but he cautioned that Angolan help in achieving a settlement in Namibia is not a condition of recognition...