Word: settlements
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Like Podhoretz, Sauter and his mates have gone to great lengths to prove that conditions in Indochina are worse now than they were during the three decades of war in that region from 1945 to 1975, when a settlement of sorts emerged. The Salient has featured an extensive article by a former North Vietnamese leader who now rails against the failures and lies of communism in his homeland. The campus conservatives have presented similar characters at public demonstrations, and the rhetoric is predictable: The United States precipitated the horrors of communist rule by pulling out. The Cold Warriors could have...
Ortega also restated the desire of El Salvador's left-wing guerrillas for a negotiated settlement. The U.S. has consistently opposed negotiations that would require the government to give up at the bargaining table what the insurgents have not been able to win on the battlefield or at the polls. Indeed, "negotiated settlement" has become something of a loaded code phrase to describe the approach embraced by the French, as well as some members of the U.S. Congress, that would force the Salvadoran government to share power with leftists. But one staunch supporter of Salvadoran President José Napole...
...last week's fighting was the role of the Israeli settler "militias," or vigilante groups, which occasionally attacked and intimidated the Arab population. Out of the estimated 24,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza, an estimated 5,000 males carry small arms. In addition, every settlement has some artillery pieces and heavy arms for defending itself against a general attack...
When they leave their homes, settlers are supposed to carry weapons day and night, and some are quite willing to use them. Two weeks ago, when Arab youths put up a makeshift roadblock along the route to the Jewish settlement of Shiloh, two carloads of settlers crashed through the obstruction, firing rifles and submachine guns as they proceeded. Not until five days later was the body of a 17-year-old Arab youth discovered on a hillside near by. Police subsequently arrested and charged the secretary of the settlement, Nathan Nathanson, 38, with the shooting. Last week, at another roadblock...
...awaken the next day to find all the streets leading to the center of town closed off with barbed wire, the type often used to fence confiscated land in preparation for the establishment of a settlement. An army jeep with a loudspeaker announces a curfew: no one is to step outside his home for 48 hours. A whole town seems to be placed in solitary confinement...