Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This week the U.N. Security Council will take up the Rhodesian question, and probably will denounce the Salisbury plan. Yet the more the settlement takes shape, the more denunciations of it by outside governments will be questioned. Neither Washington nor London was prepared to oppose it openly, though in the past both had maintained that any new government in Salisbury would have to include the Patriotic Front if the war was to be ended and if Soviet and Cuban influence was to be kept out of the area...
British Foreign Secretary David Owen still feels that Nkomo and his Patriotic Front faction should somehow be brought into the settlement, and is believed to be working privately toward that end. But Nkomo is showing no interest, at least publicly. From his Zambia headquarters, he denounced the Salisbury agreement as a "sellout." His verdict: the fighting will continue...
...position as "judicially frivolous." Davar, the semiofficial voice of the opposition Labor Party, declared: "The Israeli attempt to undermine the sanctity of 242 is a perilous maneuver. It only strengthens the impression that the government is fleeing any attempt to deal with fundamental questions and prefers formalistic sophistry and settlement gimmickry...
More gimmickry was in evidence last week. The Begin Cabinet, after days of heated debate over whether to stop the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, finally concluded that there was "no need at this time for any new decision." Jerusalem's announcement highlighted a serious dispute within the fractious Begin Cabinet, which has Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon pressing ahead with new settlements while Defense Minister Ezer Weizman calls for an end to that activity during the negotiations. Using his military authority to fight the Sharon policy, Weizman ordered that some 20 young farmers be barred from...
...Producer John Percival, an archaeology buff, conceived the project after a visit to a re constructed Iron Age settlement in Lejre, Denmark. From 1,000 volunteers, Percival selected six couples and trained them in Celtic crafts and culture. One couple, with the commune's only children, three boys, braved it for much of the year but quit the experiment several months ago. The others have stayed on, raising crops and livestock, making pottery, cooking Iron Age food and spinning and weaving wool sheared from their own sheep...