Word: step-by-step
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...that Assad may be so flushed with diplomatic success that he will become increasingly intransigent. "He may try to ride things out until the U.S. is ready to take a more sweeping crack at the problem," observed a State Department Middle East expert. This means that Kissinger's step-by-step diplomacy may, for the moment, be dead. Assad has said that Syria will refuse to attend a Geneva conference unless the P.L.O. is also given its own seat; these conditions are unacceptable to Washington and Jerusalem (see following story...
...veto. "We would strongly oppose any attempt to change them," Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned last week. The principal U.S. objective at the debate is to prevent the Security Council from becoming the main forum for future Middle East peace efforts. Washington is determined either to maintain the step-by-step diplomatic approach that so far has achieved two Israeli-Egyptian Sinai accords and one Israeli-Syrian agreement or to return to the Geneva Conference, jointly sponsored by the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which met briefly...
...their aggressive strategy-and as a major setback for the Egyptian policy of seeking peace on the installment plan with Israel. "Syria has realized an important political achievement for the Palestinian cause," proclaimed the Damascus newspaper Al Thawra. "The Security Council's resolution was a defeat for the step-by-step diplomacy and the policy of bilateral and partial solutions." Syrian Defense Minister Major-General Moustafa Tlas also gratuitously sneered at the Egyptian-Israeli accord on the Sinai. "The Egyptian administration regained a few kilometers of land," he said, "where troops armed with rifles only can enter...
...prefer the Security Council. Either alternative rules out step-by-step negotiations. We do not object to a phased step if it is not an individual step. The Sinai agreement did not open new doors toward peace. On the contrary, it closed doors that were open. We say we want peace, and we show more than one way toward peace...
...requested; one day later, the Senate agreed by a 70-18 margin. The overwhelming votes were deceiving; the resolution had been held back by sharp attacks from Kissinger's congressional critics and outside experts like former Under Secretary of State George Ball, who argued that Kissinger's step-by-step approach hindered an overall peace settlement more than it helped. Nonetheless, Ball urged Congress to approve the accord, since to vote it down would embarrass...