Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Will the settlement survive...
...transition from the Rhodesia of the past to the Zimbabwe of the future has now been under way for almost two months, but the durability of Salisbury's "internal settlement" remains in doubt. The biggest challenge facing the ruling Executive Council, composed of Prime Minister Ian Smith and three black moderates, is how to bring the guerrilla armies of the Patriotic Front into the electoral process, and thereby end the continuing civil war. But in the meantime, the council has been having problems within its own ranks...
...hopes that Smith and his black colleagues will sit down at an all-parties peace conference with the front and agree to the U.S.British plan for internationally supervised transition to majority rule through free elections. Some Washington officials thought the Hove affair, by undercutting the credibility of the internal settlement, might encourage Smith and his colleagues to join such a conference. It could also spur the Salisbury government to avoid similar embarrassments in the future and to broaden its popular support. Last week the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, another black council member, said flatly that the next two months would probably...
...Zbigniew Brzezinski, Dayan left the Administration with scant hope of a break in the diplomatic stalemate. At issue in the talks were the interpretation of an old document, U.N. Resolution 242, and the formulation of a new one, a declaration of principles to govern a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement. The real question: whether Israel is obligated to withdraw from a substantial portion of the West Bank. Jerusalem's answer remained "not necessarily"−which to many ears still sounded like "never...
...occupied West Bank, with terrorist incidents leading to arrests and crackdowns. But this, like the diplomatic pressure Israel is facing, only seems to polarize the nation further. At the Wailing Wall last week, the ardently nationalist Gush Emunim held a rally and declared the founding of a new Jewish settlement on the West Bank at Karnei Shomron. The settlement had actually been started in January, but the rally was the Gush Emunim's way of proclaiming that settlement is continuing on the West Bank. Significantly, the Premier's office made no protest against the announcement...