Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commander in Chief, Jimmy Carter has plunged underwater on a nuclear attack submarine, climbed into the sky in an E-4A Airborne Command Post and descended underground to inspect Strategic Air Command headquarters. Last week the President renewed his military travels by helicoptering with his wife Rosalynn from Savannah, Ga., to the deck of the nuclear aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower to view a series of combat exercises...
Lebanon, was how far they would go. An even more important question, as Israel's Premier Menachem Begin prepared for his latest round of talks with President Carter in Washington this week, was whether the attack that Begin had launched to "sever the arm of iniquity" had also hopelessly complicated the already imperiled peace process in the Middle East. The outraged Arab states demanded immediate Israeli withdrawal, and the U.N. Security Council debated a U.S. proposal for an international peacekeeping force to be sent into Lebanon...
Almost overnight, the Israeli attack ?and the Palestinian terrorist slaughter that had triggered it?changed the diplomatic outlook for the Middle East. Ever since Anwar Sadat undertook his "sacred mission" to Jerusalem last November, the focus had been on the pursuit of peace and the chance that, despite all the subsequent setbacks, the Egyptian President's initiative could somehow propel the protagonists toward an unraveling of their ancient grievances. Now, suddenly, the talk of peace was replaced by grave concern about a renewal of the old Middle East "cycle of violence," as U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance called...
...Israeli side, the Tel Aviv attack and the assault into south Lebanon have once again stirred both anger and militant pride in the Israelis, quieting critics of the government's grudging handling of the peace negotiations and strengthening the positions of Begin and his hardline Likud coalition colleagues. One result: the prognosis for the talks between Begin and Carter in Washington, never promising, seemed even more bleak...
...should be noted, however, that Israel is not solely to blame for shattering the fragile status-quo. Moreover, the terrorist attack gives some validity to Israeli fears about negotiating with the PLO at this stage. That is not meant to belittle the necessity of establishing a Palestinian homeland on the West Bank. Nor is it intended to imply that an overall settlement at Geneva--taking account of that necessity--is not the ultimate solution to the problem of peace. It does suggest, though, that perhaps the best way to capitalize on the momentum left over from Egyptian President Sadat...