Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more vigorous and visionary statesman than has been generally perceived. And he has shown in the past that he is capable of surprises. In 1971, which he boldly and perhaps foolishly declared would be a "year of decision" for the Middle East, he offered to search for a peace settlement with Israel?a proposal that the Jerusalem government of Premier Golda Meir turned aside. The following year he abruptly evicted Soviet military advisers and experts from Egypt in a gesture toward the West that Washington failed to follow up. Then in October 1973 he caught Israel off guard with...
...Israeli organizations within the U.S., Sadat began to rethink his strategy of looking for a settlement strictly through U.S. channels...
Your proposal for a just settlement in he Middle East is neither just nor realistic. It is instead a suicide plan for the state of Israel...
TIME'S reasoned proposal for a just peace in the Middle East is basically the sort of settlement some of us have been advocating for a long time. But this peace must come soon. With astonishing rapidity, Israelis develop emotional and historical attachments to land they originally took for temporary security. Arabs, while remembering the glorious victories of past centuries, forget the devastating defeats of recent years with equal speed. Bruce Hardcastle Washington...
Peter Coors, 31, the company's marketing vice president, concedes that the boycott has been painful: sales in California, which account for almost 45% of the company's volume, are down by 15%. A possible settlement is complicated by the company's demand that the union accept an open shop, which became a management goal after 53% of the strikers crossed picket lines and returned to work last spring. But Peter Coors thinks that Coors has weathered the worst. Says he: "If we've been hurt, then we've been hurt as much...