Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter flew off from Andrews Air Force Base, after a surprisingly successful White House meeting with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, he had no advance assurance that his trip would not lead to an embarrassing failure. It thus entailed major political risks, both for the nations involved and for Carter personally. If he had to return home without having brought Cairo and Jerusalem substantially closer to agreement, he could be criticized for unwisely raising expectations, for wasting U.S. influence, and for improvising showy moves without any serious plan behind them. Said a Washington-based European diplomat: "It is extremely risky...
...following morning the President and his party returned to Cairo in U.S. Air Force helicopters, which had been ferried to Egypt just for the presidential visit. At Egypt's parliament, he received a standing welcome, and his moving, well-delivered remarks were interrupted by applause 14 times. Addressing the deputies as "my friends, my brothers," he ended the televised speech by citing passages from the Old and New Testaments praising peace as the highest of man's virtues. And he quoted the Koran: "If thine adversary incline toward peace, do thou also incline toward peace, and trust in God." After...
...taking more risk than I think he's taking, he's crazy." But Carter in fact had received no such guarantee, and the American people soon realized that he had embarked on the most politically hazardous trip of his presidential career. Riding with him on Air Force One could have been his own political future. Said the Herald: "His willingness to bet the farm in 1979 could well send him back to it after...
...seventh day, reports from Bangkok said that China had launched a series of air strikes against military depots near Haiphong, where Soviet ships were unloading supplies. Officials in Peking and Washington discredited the report within hours, but not before it had hit front pages around the world and had thus been woven whole cloth into the war's tapestry of mystification and misinformation...
...White wrote that he knew spring had arrived when he walked out the door and "noticed that the air that had come in was not like an invader but like a friend who had stopped by for a visit...