Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, a high-level Israeli participant at Camp David told TIME: "The talks are moving in the right direction." He added that "the main issue is the status of the West Bank. It has been discussed in all its aspects-the security arrangements, territorial settlement and the Palestinian political issue." It was also learned that the Israelis have sensed an improvement in the personal relations between Begin and the two other leaders. Begin, it was said, became more open and less suspicious that his two counterparts were hopefully awaiting his political downfall in order to go ahead with the peace...
Ironically, such an agreement was exactly what Prime Minister Ian Smith had been seeking when he met secretly with Nkomo in Lusaka, Zambia, last month. Convinced that his "internal settlement" with three moderate black leaders had failed because it had not brought an end to the fighting, Smith had flown to the Zambian capital to see Nkomo on Aug. 14. Smith urged Nkomo to join the Salisbury government and thereby, in effect, dump his Marxist co-leader of the Patriotic Front, Robert Mugabe. In return, Smith promised to help Nkomo become the first President of an independent Zimbabwe...
...support of his colleague, Mugabe. And Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda was hosting the meeting without the express approval of his fellow "frontline" Presidents (Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Samora Machel of Mozambique, Agostinho Neto of Angola and Seretse Khama of Botswana), with whom he has been jointly seeking a Rhodesian settlement...
...seeds of their future prosperity within their grasp, so they also have the seeds of their destruction." The problem was that, with every alliance weakened by the latest events, it was hard to imagine which individual or group would be strong enough to make the next move toward a settlement...
...hawks are discussing other ways to dun the disobedient. The most obvious is to withhold federal contracts from companies that violate the standards. Some other ideas: lean on the Interstate Commerce Commission to reject any rate increases that truck lines might seek in order to pay for a high settlement with the Teamsters; let in more lower-cost imported steel if American mills raise prices too much. Government officials are talking about administering the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act in a way that would hold construction wages down rather than pushing them up. The act commands that contractors pay the "prevailing...