Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know the narratives of his peace missions and summitry. But around almost every recent President there has developed a rich literature from the human drama that takes place at the center. We had a touch of it with Bert Lance, a bit more in Carter's talks with Begin and Sadat, then a jiggle or two in the Cabinet firings, but beyond that it is thin gruel...
...Sunday meeting of the Israeli Cabinet, Moshe Dayan lashed out at practically everybody. He strongly criticized the economic policies of his own government-in part, perhaps, because he is trying to fill the political vacuum caused by the illness of Premier Menachem Begin, who is still recuperating from a mild stroke. But he saved the best part of his fire for the U.S., warning it against recognzing the P.L.O. or in any other way strengthening the chances of a wholly independent Palestinian state's develop ing in the West Bank and Gaza...
...means of bringing the Palestinians into negotiations. If the autonomy talks fail, they contended, a U.N. resolution endorsing Palestinian rights could serve as a fall-back position, a basis for subsequent negotiation. Eventually, the two sides settled down, but in truth the negotiators are merely shadowboxing until Menachim Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat hold their next meeting in early September...
...Germans chiefly responsible for the growing cooperation between Europeans and Arabs. Says an Israeli diplomat angrily: "We can't just brush aside the past." Bonn's view was that Jerusalem's reactions were largely emotional. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is known to be impatient with Begin, whom he regards as holding too narrow and too rigid a position on the Palestinian question...
...Crimson was becoming my home--a place to argue and laugh with people, talk politics and hone my writing and reporting. And although for months after my disastrous romance I looked through men as if they weren't there, I found that I could begin again at the end of that year...