Word: agreement
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Next, Carter dispatched Vance to the Middle East in an effort to spur Egypt and Israel into reaching final agreement on a peace treaty by the Dec. 17 goal set at the Camp David summit. That deadline was not to be met. Together, Egypt and the U.S. arrived at compromises on the few remaining points that were not settled at Camp David. But the Israelis rejected the proposals with an intemperate rebuke that threw into doubt both the immediate future of peace negotiations and of U.S.-Israeli relations...
...Wednesday, when Vance phoned to report that the Middle East peace talks had hit serious snags, Carter told him in cryptic language?even though he was using a scrambler phone?that the agreement with Peking was almost set. The President referred to it as "the matter that only five of us are involved in." After several more exchanges of cables with Peking, Brzezinski informed Carter at about 1 p.m. Thursday that work on the communique was finished. The President smiled and said, "Good deal...
...dozen U.S. officials knew about the agreement, and Carter ordered them to maintain absolute secrecy. The President, during an interview Thursday with ABC's Barbara Walters, gave a deft and disarming response to a question about China. There was no hint that a historic development was imminent...
Another of Carter's major concerns was to assure Moscow that the agreement with mainland China was not meant to challenge or provoke the Soviet Union, even though the U.S.-Peking communique condemned "hegemony," which is a Chinese code word for Soviet expansionism. To counterbalance that possibility, the communique pointedly said that the new step was not taken for "transient, tactical or expedient reasons," diplomatic language implying that Carter's China action was not in any way directed against Moscow. Vance told TIME: "We will treat the Soviet Union and China equally and not play one off against the other...
...negotiations were going, Carter said: "I called to ask you to come back because I've got something I want you here for." The President, of course, was referring to the dramatic developments in U.S.-Chinese relations. Because it now seemed all but impossible for an Egyptian-Israeli agreement to be reached by Dec. 17, Vance said that he would return to Washington by Friday afternoon...