Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saudis have made it clear to Sadat that the extent of future support will depend, in no small part, on the degree to which Sadat succeeds in linking the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty with an overall settlement. For that reason Sadat is pressing the Israelis to agree in the treaty to a specific timetable for negotiating the future of the West Bank and Gaza...
...first presented to Egypt and Israel in 1977. "The key point is the concept of transition, not the precise duration which has been agreed [to]. We see the transition period as essential to build confidence, gain momentum and bring about the changes in attitudes that can assure a final settlement...
...townspeople want to cash in on the bonanza by doing such things as building a theme park and holding a festival. Others seek, in vain, to avoid exploitation. Chaos reigns as the citizens realize that Berryville is likely to become a national shrine: the site of the first Viking settlement in America. Last week real events in a small Maine community seemed on the verge of following those in fictive Berryville...
...Maine museum, where the treasure has now been placed under protective plastic, Archaeologist Bruce Bourque was more restrained. Even if the coin is Norwegian, he said, it may have been brought to the site from a Viking settlement in Newfoundland, not by Norsemen but by seagoing Indians. After all, he noted, no other Norse materials have been discovered around Blue Hill. Still, the museum is taking no chances. To stave off a possible stampede of runic treasure hunters who might indeed turn Blue Hill into a facsimile of Trillin's Berryville, Maine officials want the area around the Indian...
...waiting until last month to present detailed proposals, management angered the chapels and reduced chances for a settlement by the deadline. "We object to negotiating with a gun to our heads," says one union leader. The National Graphical Association, which represents 600 Times arid Sunday Times compositors, machine managers and stereotypers, is refusing to come to the bargaining table at all. "Only a fool conspires at the destruction of his members' jobs," says Joe Wade, union general secretary. "No trade union leader in any industry can give an ironclad guarantee of continuous production...