Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat, of course, had every reason to take pride in his initiative. Yet even though he had at least temporarily eclipsed Washington as the indispensable peacemaker in the Middle East, his breakthrough would not have been possible without the efforts by the U.S. to coax the region toward stability. Under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger embarked upon the shuttle diplomacy that helped restore U.S. credibility in the Arab world, which had increasingly been heeding the Soviet call. And credit also belonged to Jimmy Carter. His activities and statements on the Middle East at times seemed erratic, but they...
...succeeds?as is likely, even with occasional disappointments?Americans of every persuasion and party will have reason to be proud. We contributed a military balance which foreclosed a military solution. Our nation, because it was trusted by both sides, helped shape a negotiating process which culminated in the breakthrough of Sadat's historic journey. President Carter has handled the sequence of events growing out of the Sadat initiative with wisdom and delicacy, offering assistance but not intruding on the process of negotiations...
This historical breakthrough hit home last week when a handsome new book, The Presidents, by the National Park Service, was mailed around town. George, John, Thomas, Andrew, William, Millard, Abraham, Chester, Warren, Franklin and all those others march formally out of history. There are other Jameses too, but with last names like Madison, Monroe and Polk. At the end is No. 39: Jimmy...
...Washington press conference last week, President Carter described the new Israeli-Egyptian contacts as "a historic breakthrough" toward peace and said the U.S. would send a representative -Assistant Secretary of State Alfred Atherton-to Sadat's Cairo summit. The tone of Carter's endorsement suggested to some that he was seeking to counter press criticism that Washington, now in the unaccustomed position of being a bystander to Middle Eastern events rather than the architect of them, was discouraging rather than helping Sadat's peace initiative...
Exploiting the breakthrough, Sadat last week invited "all the parties to the conflict-including Israel-to meet here in Cairo and prepare for a Geneva conference." He told the cheering Egyptian national People's Assembly that he was prepared to be host to such a meeting as early as this week. Sadat's announcement caught the eligible participants-Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the U.S. and the Soviet Union-by surprise. The Israelis indicated that they were willing to attend. Syria, seething over Sadat's overtures to Israel, rejected the invitation flatly. The U.S. was interested...