Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lashman said last week that Harvard will continue installing items in compliance with the law. Thomas Bracken, an attorney for a Brookline community group opposed to the power plant, said Harvard officials have given him a verbal agreement that they will not install the disputed items until the trial resolves the issue. Lashman, however, said he knew of no such agreement...
Still, there is an unsettling feeling that the Camp David summit has been somewhat ill prepared for. It is usually a firm rule of summitry that the participants arrive with a fairly clear idea of the outcome. Mostly, they ratify agreements that have already been worked out in intense negotiations by lower-level officials. Often even the concluding communiques are drafted before the parties formally take their seats. This tradition is designed to avoid the dangers of high-level misunderstandings and wounded national pride. But Camp David is unique; a high U.S. official calls it a "virginal experience...
...grinding to a dangerous halt, and that conventional diplomacy had found no way to renew it. And in the Middle East, stalemate generally contains the danger of increased terrorism or, ultimately, another war. Sadat has even hinted at October as a deadline when he would cancel the Sinai Disengagement Agreement unless there is some sign of progress toward peace. By promising to make the U.S. a "full partner" in the talks rather than simply a disinterested mediator, Carter determined to try to rescue the peace process by substituting his own initiative for Sadat's. The President has admitted that this...
...press is barred, except for a small pool that records the arrivals of the participants and some minor activities. The leaders are thus spared any barrage of questions. By general agreement, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell will handle the daily briefings, either at the White House or at the makeshift press center inside an American Legion hall in Thurmont, Md., the town closest to Camp David. But on some issues he may be joined by his Egyptian and Israeli counterparts...
...easiest such points, perhaps, is the Sinai. Israel is prepared to let nearly all the area revert to Egypt, though it claims the right to maintain two military bases and several civilian settlements there. But even on this relatively simple matter, Sadat insists that he cannot sign a bilateral agreement with Jerusalem. He wants to link a Sinai accord with at least some progress (from the Arab viewpoint) on other fronts. By this he hopes to avoid charges that he is betraying the interests of other Arabs for the sake of a deal with Israel. Sadat thus has been trying...