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Kissinger on the other hand has sought primarily stability--a diplomatic status quo that has no room for revolutionary change...
...Israel was a status quo country, content with its position," he said. Safran said that the longer the stalemate continued, the better off Israel's position became. "The Arabs had run out of all their options except war," he said...
...military junta, in an hour-long interview last week with TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath, which took place in Pinochet's Defense Ministry office overlooking the gutted Moneda Palace. Pinochet was vague about the junta's timetable for a restoration of civilian government. "We will keep the status quo for a certain time, and then grant more liberty. But we don't want politics. The only party now is the Chilean party, and its members are all Chileans...
Pretext Removed. Even the quid pro quo explanation did not satisfy the fedayeen. Understandably. At the same time that their major Arab enemy was tendering an olive branch, one of their most fervent supporters was getting tough. Syria last week curtailed many fedayeen activities within its borders, including some guerrilla training-camp operations; it also closed down a propaganda radio station and confiscated an issue of an official newspaper published by the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...gone now, and the international climate has changed as well. One major question facing the leaders in Algiers: Do détente and the relaxation of tensions among the big powers invalidate the need for a policy of nonalignment? Or does détente serve to reinforce the status quo-that is, a world of a few strong nations and many weak ones-and hence make the need for a coordinated policy all the more imperative? Apparently hoping to offset such a conclusion. Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev sent a message to Boumedienne arguing that the issue was not between...