Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nobel Peace Prize [Nov. 6] will no doubt encourage Sadat and Begin in their arduous task, but it is this writer's view that the awards were premature. A successful peace settlement should bring world recognition to Sadat and Begin, or to whoever accomplishes it, only after it happens...
...action than Jimmy Carter. In his Kansas City news conference late last week, the President declared with accuracy: "There has never been any doubt in my mind, nor President Sadat's, nor Premier Begin's, that one of the premises for the Camp David negotiations was a comprehensive peace settlement." In fact, the President continued, Begin himself had said that he did not seek merely a separate peace treaty. But when the latest draft of the tentative agreement was referred to the governments back home, said Carter, "sometimes the work that has been done is partially undone...
...linkage is particularly important to Sadat, who is still trying to convince the moderate Arab states, and especially Saudi Arabia, that he is not selling out the Arab cause but is working for an overall settlement. Sadat has been disappointed that the Saudis, whose economic support is crucial to Egypt, have not publicly endorsed the Camp David accords. In truth they have been giving him some behind-the-scenes help. At a pan-Arab summit conference in Baghdad, which was convened by Iraq to counter the peace initiative, Saudi Crown Prince Fahd told the other delegates: "An attack on Sadat...
...will only further damage the national economy and the lifestyle of those citizens who remain. Of course, war could be averted if a credible, autonomous black government with the backing of the West and the approval of moderate Africans were to emerge; but this appears unlikely given the present settlement. Instead, the most likely occurrence will be the eventual removal of Smith by the guerrilla forces, followed by a civil war with different black groups pulling and tugging at Rhodesia until little is left. And that can only be bad news for the six million Africans who hope to inherit...
...choice (for Israel) will be peace or settlement," he said at the lecture sponsored by Harvard/Radcliffe Hillel, adding that he thinks the Israelis will not choose to fight for its settlements on the West Bank...