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...being put to a stern test in the Middle East, the tortured area where tensions rose appreciably last week. The President's energy, perseverance and charm have impressed Arab and Israeli alike, but his confusing statements and missteps have dismayed them. Even before Carter took office, Kissinger's innovative step-by-step diplomacy had stalled. Carter has been unable to restore the momentum and the region is probably closer to war than when he came to power. This week Secretary of State Cyrus Vance departs for a ten-day swing through Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Israel...
...just one of the problems Carter faces in his attempt to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Carter's strategy, drawn largely from a 1975 Brookings Institution study, has been to coax the Arabs and Israelis to an early Geneva conference at which a comprehensive (in contrast to a step-by-step) solution would be negotiated. A fair settlement, according to Carter's many statements on the subject, would resolve three fundamental issues: the nature of peace for Israel, the borders of the warring states, and the fate of the Palestinians. In his search for settlement, the President has met with...
...while the Arabs were ecstatic over Carter. An Egyptian official called him "more Arab than the Ar abs," while Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat last month praised the President's position on the Palestinians as "a positive step...
...mixed for a long time to come," and he argues that Soviet-American relations must be "assimilated into a new approach toward the world as a whole." Brzezinski sees the Kremlin leaders as aging in both years and ideas, and feels that the U.S. is much more in step with the currents of global change. But if he really feels that the Russians have already lost the ideological struggle, that is a view that one senior foreign policy expert on Capitol Hill considers "as fundamental a misconception as I can think...
...guarantee success. It is a problem that has been extant for 29 years or more-some say thousands of years. But I think it is a good first step and I think that anyone who would only go with a guarantee of success would probably not likely take the first step toward peace...