Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, I feel that your position regarding the ability of Nasser to compromise and reach out for a settlement while Israel, seeking an illusory military security, refuses figuratively and literally to give ground, is like Alice's at the Mad Hatter's tea party. Logic simply has no place in the aura of the Middle East...
...first to be fired-out of work. He is unwilling to curb inflation at the price of social upheaval. Increasingly, Nixon's opportunity for slowing down the economy in a manner acceptable to all factions in the country is narrowing to one prospect: a Viet Nam settlement. He seems willing to gamble, if Congress will allow him, that the U.S. war effort can be reduced by a sufficient degree and soon enough to help the domestic front...
...week's session in the old Hotel Majestic, North Viet Nam's chief delegate, Xuan Thuy, left Paris for his first visit home since the talks began-doubtless to receive fresh instructions. Even so, both sides have already arrived at closer agreement on the principles of a settlement than they publicly acknowledge...
...specific detail," he declared. Lodge thereupon named five specific issues-ranging from agreements on Laos and Cambodia to release of prisoners-where "sufficient common ground" exists to begin negotiating. After warming up on these peripheral subjects, he then broached the more basic issues of troop withdrawals and political settlement...
...There isn't any mutually acceptable settlement, unless they want to grant our demands," Berg said...