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Considering the critical importance of the meeting confronting them, the three leaders seemed remarkably nonchalant. Jimmy Carter spent pleasant hours fishing in Wyoming, and Anwar Sadat went swimming in the Suez Canal. Though Menachem Begin stayed behind his desk in Jerusalem, he was working no more than his normal rigorous schedule. All this seemed a strange way for the leaders of the U.S., Egypt and Israel to prepare for the momentous summit conference that convenes this week at Camp David, the secluded presidential retreat in the Maryland hills. Observed one astonished diplomat involved in planning the meeting: "I expected frantic...
...vacationing President quite fittingly was seeing parts of America at its unspoiled best. All too soon, he would have to assume once again the burdens of office. Instead effacing the fleeting question of whether he would land the dancing trout he had just hooked, he would confront Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin across a conference table at Camp David and struggle with the intractable problem of how to achieve an enduring peace in the Middle East...
...remind disgruntled Southerners that he is one of them. Then he goes west to Idaho for some rafting on the Salmon River and to Wyoming for some hiking around Jackson Hole. On his return, he must prepare for his summit conference with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. In his talks with these two shrewd visitors, his new-found toughness will be put to its hardest test. If the conference is a moderate success, Carter may reverse his decline in public esteem. If not, his future may be gray indeed...
...urgent call from his Foreign Minister, Moshe Dayan. Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin had called a special Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Its purpose: to head off a crisis that was threatening to disrupt Jimmy Carter's plan for a meeting at Camp David between Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in early September...
...ancient Mediterranean city last week, few could imagine that Ramadan's omen of peace and tranquillity would bear fruit. Yet by the time Vance took off for Washington two days later, an extraordinary effort to revive the peace talks had begun. Like Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had accepted Jimmy Carter's invitation to attend a trilateral summit meeting on Sept. 5 at Camp David, Carter's retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland...