Word: settlements
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...compromise, and who talk blindly of rebuilding a military force. But they are increasingly being challenged by Palestinians who realize that Israel is moving inexorably toward annexation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and who are prepared to compromise on certain issues hi order to get a settlement. Says a former West Bank mayor who was banished by the Israelis last year: "If the hard-liners have any alternatives to offer, we will listen. But we are not interested hi dreams any more. The most important thing now is to realize the urgency of the situation...
...moment may be King Hussein, who is due to visit Washington this month. The King is said to share the view that the Arabs must move decisively to secure a peace agreement before Israel's policy of increasing the Jewish population on the West Bank makes any peace settlement impossible. Hussein has told West Bank Arabs that he would be glad to take a more active role in the negotiating process, but only if he has the support of the P.L.O. and the moderate Arab states...
...from $2.5 billion to nearly $3 billion. The increase included $350 million in military assistance. "We are now at a touchy time," said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg. "The danger of this bill is that it would make it far more difficult to bring about a quick and easy settlement in Lebanon." In the longer run, it would also weaken the U.S.'s " credibility in this region, and therefore any attempt to neutralize the P.L.O. hard-liners by encouraging negotiations leading to a settlement that moderate Palestinians can accept. -By William E. Smith. Reported by Johanna McGeary/ Washington...
...Rupert Murdoch, declared the condition of his purchase: the paper's eleven unions would have to give up 180 of the Herald's 800 jobs to save $4 million a year. Nonetheless, the sale went through, five hours after Hearst suspended publication and sent employees home. The settlement, after 30 consecutive hours of bargaining, closed a week of allegations by Hearst executives that the Globe was trying to sabotage union negotiations. Crowed the Herald on its front page Saturday morning: YOU BET WE'RE ALIVE...
Many other Volunteers of America Santas on the streets of New York are former or current residents of the organization's settlement house for destitute men. Arthur Johnson is one such resident. "The Volunteers are helping me out so I help them out," he says. Another member of the house, who would only identify himself as Fred, said he was dressing up as Santa to pick up some extra money before his next unemployment check. One special pleasure of the job. Fred said, is competing for donations with the non-Santa-dressed Salvation Army...