Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Sadat should make his own peace with Israel and I hope, one by one, the other Arab nations will follow-each negotiating its own settlement...
...break with the radical states, he underscored the fact that he did not intend to be deterred by their opposition-or by that of the Soviets. Indeed, he has set the stage for substantial talks with the Israelis, freeing himself to proceed on his own to negotiate an overall settlement, which, if all goes well, he would present to his fellow Arabs on a take-it-or-leave-it basis...
...Saudis, Arab solidarity is essential if the Soviets are to be prevented from exploiting Arab quarrels. Communism, the Saudis believe, is almost as much a threat to the Arab world as Zionism. They feel an overall peace settlement would "deradicalize" the Arabs, whose frustrations about Israel have fostered a brand of terrorism that has frightened the Riyadh rulers. The assassination of King Faisal in 1975 (although apparently not politically motivated), the kidnaping later that year of Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yahmani at the OPEC meeting in Vienna (a scheme masterminded by Palestinian Leader Wadie Haddad) and last spring...
...military operation stalls hopes for settlement talks...
...that case, renewed momentum toward a peaceful settlement would again depend upon Britain and the U.S., whose blueprint for Rhodesia was eclipsed when Smith accepted universal suffrage. A main feature of their plan calls for a London-appointed administrator to govern for a six-month transition period during which a constitutional conference-based on one man, one vote-would create the political structure of an independent Rhodesia. U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and British Foreign Secretary David Owen are to meet this week at a NATO conference in Brussels, where they will certainly review their strategy for Rhodesia...