Word: step-by-step
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...undergraduate program was formulated by a special departmental committee appointed last fall by MacCaffrey and chaired by Richard E. Pipes, professor of History. The full senior faculty has approved the committee's proposals for changes step-by-step over the last month
...USSR supplying Sadat with the arms he has requested but not received are good. The Soviet Union opposes the Kissinger step-by-step approach resenting the fact that it may be frozen out of any role in the eventual peace settlement. And it has gone out of its way to sabotage the disengagement talks, even to the point of encouraging an alliance between Syria and the PLO in case of a separate Egyptian-Israeli agreement. Clearly step-by-step would be nullified if Egypt and the Soviet Union were once again to establish close ties...
...Israel and Egypt to accept a second-stage disengagement agreement in the Sinai cast the Middle East once more into a mood of tension. The collapse of the American peace initiative left a reconvening of the Geneva Conference or another round of war as alternatives to Kissinger's step-by-step approach to bilateral negotiations. What had gone wrong? Who was to blame? What would happen next...
...Egyptian and Israeli ambassadors, or even foreign ministers, might resume negotiations in Washington with State Department officials serving as middlemen. Far likelier is a resumption of the suspended peace talks in Geneva. That is the aim of the Soviets, who have not interfered with Kissinger's step-by-step talks as long as they did not rule out a later Geneva meeting in which Moscow would be a participant. Kissinger himself always assumed that there eventually would be a return to Geneva...
...role as Secretary of State. Some diplomats, politicians and academics maintained all along that shuttle diplomacy was unwise because a settlement was impossible unless the Russians were allowed a role in the negotiations. But it remains to be seen whether a settlement is possible with the Russians, and the step-by-step approach was certainly worth trying...