Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah's manipulation of America's anxieties about "stability"--he has begun to fulminate about the role "extremist Islamic marxists" have played in this month's protests. One only has to look at Prime Minister Ian Smith's current hedging about the progress of his much-vaunted "internal settlement" in Rhodesia to see that behind this combination of internal face-lift and cold-war saber-rattling lies the separate attempt to cling to power...
...from assured. It will depend in large part on the stern and cantankerous figure of Menachem Begin?and on whether any mixture of pressure and persuasion can induce the onetime guerrilla fighter to lessen his intransigency and make at least some concessions for the sake of a settlement. The temperamental Sadat will have to make compromises too, of course, but the Egyptians are pinning their hopes on the perhaps illusory belief that Carter can influence Begin to change his course. Warned one of them: "If the U.S. is ever going to use its power to get a Middle East peace...
...assembled Knesset and declaring on behalf of his fellow Egyptians: "We welcome you among us with full security and safety . . . We accept to live with you in a permanent peace." That was tantamount to Egyptian recognition of Israel, which Israel has long demanded as a condition for reaching a settlement...
...easiest such points, perhaps, is the Sinai. Israel is prepared to let nearly all the area revert to Egypt, though it claims the right to maintain two military bases and several civilian settlements there. But even on this relatively simple matter, Sadat insists that he cannot sign a bilateral agreement with Jerusalem. He wants to link a Sinai accord with at least some progress (from the Arab viewpoint) on other fronts. By this he hopes to avoid charges that he is betraying the interests of other Arabs for the sake of a deal with Israel. Sadat thus has been trying...
...would resume for 15 days under a new mediator, James J. Healy, professor of industrial relations at the Harvard Business School. But this concession to the unions would be balanced by one for the Postal Service: if agreement was not reached within that time, Healy could impose an arbitrated settlement. Explained Horvitz with studied ambiguity: "It will be a form of a negotiated-mediated settlement...