Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When you speak of the thornier issues, we assume that you refer to the ultimate disposition of what we call the West Bank. Don't you feel that your settlement policy makes a better climate more difficult...
Negotiations continued all weekend but the two sides seem to remain far apart on several key issues. While a settlement is still possible. Yale is bracing for a strike and has pledged to continue all teaching and research...
...adroit leadership of President Hafez Assad, Syria has emerged as the leading powerbroker in the Middle East. Having forced Lebanon to renounce its U.S.-sponsored agreement with Israel, Assad not only scored a major diplomatic triumph but established himself as the man to see for a Middle East settlement. This is even if, in trying to stabilize Lebanon, he may have overreached himself, as the breakup in the reconciliation talks last week suggests...
...true that I raised that subject often. Cuban troops in Ethiopia were the praetorian guard of a regime whose policy had caused inestimable suffering. Cuban troops in Angola were the chief impediment to a settlement that might bring peace to that country and independence to neighboring Namibia. But it was the role of Cuba in the insurgency in El Salvador that engaged our attention in the most urgent manner...
These moves have yielded an unprecedented climate of confidence, but the biggest hurdle remains: achieving a political settlement for Namibia. The Cuban withdrawal from Angola, which South Africa insists on as a condition for independence, seems unlikely to be met, however, until the Angolan government finds some way of defusing the UNITA threat. Recently, U.S. diplomats have voiced cautious optimism, claiming that the Angolans are beginning to recognize that UNITA must be given a political voice in the government...