Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...army, borders Nicaragua, Monge is feeling vulnerable to the spread of violence. Part of his hope in planning last week's meeting, which would have been the first direct high-level contact between the Reagan Administration and the Salvadoran guerrillas, was that it could lead to a negotiated settlement in Nicaragua as well as El Salvador...
Stone went to San José to persuade the rebels to enter into direct negotiations with Magaña. U.S. officials had said previously that if the guerrillas would agree to a political settlement in which their share of power would depend on their performance in elections, the U.S. might do something useful for them: use its influence with the Salvadoran government to postpone the elections from November or December until a later date, thereby giving the guerrillas a better chance to make the transition from fighters to candidates...
...black tribal homelands. In Zululand, 200,000 cattle without grazing land are expected to die; 98% of the 68,000 wild donkeys in Bophuthatswana will be shot on government orders so that more pasture will be available for cattle, sheep and goats. In the Orange Free State tribal settlement area of Onverwacht, 4,000 have reportedly died. These hardships are having serious political and social repercussions. Says Bishop Desmond Tutu, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches: "I'm fearful that people will begin to kill for food...
...council turned down these demands but promised to set up a special court to examine cases involving neglect of duty. In a rhetorical concession to the rebels, the council announced its opposition to the Lebanese-Israeli withdrawal agreement and declared that the Arab plan for a Middle East peace settlement, as formulated at last year's Fez summit, should be rejected in favor of a "military option." That was not good enough for either the P.L.O. rebels or the Syrians, who merely stepped up their attacks on Arafat's leadership...
...good for Israel" and indeed a positive result of Israel's costly war in Lebanon. His reasoning presumably is that any step toward further radicalization of the P.L.O. would prevent the U.S. from giving tacit support to P.L.O. moderates and make more difficult the kind of negotiated settlement on the West Bank and Gaza that Israel opposes...