Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history. Three times in four weeks our cover story was changed in the final hours of the weekend to capture late-breaking events: the surprisingly swift election of Pope John Paul I on a Roman Saturday evening, the turmoil in Iran and Carter's Middle East breakthrough. Last week the cover illustration remained the same, but the cover story was entirely rewritten beginning late Sunday night and into Monday's dawn, a time when that issue would normally reach the first newsstands. Before the extraordinary telecast from the East Room was over, TIME'S editors had stopped...
...crowds in North and South Carolina was so cordial that the President barely had to mention Camp David. He could count on someone else doing that for him. The most surprising example was a large ad in the Asheville (N.C.) Times that congratulated Carter for the Middle East breakthrough and concluded: "I am proud of you." The ad was paid for by Democrats who are supporting Republican Senator Jesse Helms for re-election even though Carter had come to the state to campaign for Helms' Democratic rival, John Ingram...
...David, President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin emerged Sunday night to sign before the television cameras and the watching world two documents that were giant efforts toward peace in the Middle East. Though considerable obstacles and hard bargaining remain, it was a major breakthrough in areas that have defied all the efforts of war and diplomacy for three decades. The outcome was substantially more than anyone except perhaps Host Jimmy Carter had believed possible before the summit began?and immensely more than had been anticipated right up to the Sunday on which the summit...
...only on the final Saturday that the possibility of a breakthrough began to take shape. While Begin observed the Sabbath, Carter met with Sadat for 2½ hours. Once sundown came, Carter and Begin met for 4½ hours. By that time their negotiators had narrowed success or failure for the summit to just two issues: the Palestinians and the Israeli Sinai settlements...
There has been no reported breakthrough on the Palestinian issue or on any other key issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Carter has not brought Begin and Sadat together at the negotiating table since last Thursday...