Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will remain empty. Their would-be occupants, I.R.A. Militants Paddy Agnew and Kieran Doherty, both 26, are on a hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison. The election cast a shadow over Anglo-Irish relations, particularly since both countries have been seeking ways to work toward a settlement in Ulster. The Agnew-Doherty issue could draw the Republic deeper into Northern Ireland's sectarian strife. Dublin had managed to keep its distance from the furor that followed the death of Bobby Sands, a member of the British Parliament, last month. I.R.A. strategists intend to deny that luxury...
...saying that "no one was more surprised than I" by the air strike. "This tragedy," as he called it, had resulted from the ongoing hostilities within the Middle East. Reagan reiterated his hope that the Israeli-Syrian confrontation in Lebanon could be resolved and would lead to a broader settlement...
...equally obvious that nothing short of a comprehensive Middle East agreement, including a just settlement for the issue of Palestinian self-determination, will bring true peace to the region. After the Tammuz raid, no Arab country can accept Secretary of State Haig's thesis that Soviet adventurism is a greater threat to the area. No less a figure than Saudi Arabia's King Khalid made the point last week during a visit to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Without movement toward that regional goal, even the most conservative Arab states may give...
...peaceful settlement of the confrontations in the Middle East that threaten the stability of that troubled region and of the world...
...Carter policy implicitly accepted an Angolan claim that the Cubans would leave after the South Africans pulled out of Namibia. The Reagan Administration, on the other hand, is under heavy pressure from Republican hard-liners like Senator Jesse Helms to make Cuban withdrawal a prior condition for the Namibian settlement. Helms also wants the U.S. to force Angola into sharing power with the guerrilla group backed by South Africa known as the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA...