Word: camps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City, Okla., a place that Carter promised to revisit if he were elected. Only hours later, however, the President announced his peace mission to Egypt and Israel, and off went Ogden to the Middle East once again. Ogden welcomed the Carter journey as easier to cover than the Camp David summit meeting last September. "At least now," he reported from Cairo, "the principals and their aides are not locked up in seclusion behind electrified barbed wire in the Catoctin Mountains...
...deeply during the last 30 years of conflict, enmity and war." This is a point that Carter has been stressing with increasing frequency. Later, in his address to Egypt's parliament, he again endorsed linkage by saying that "there can be little doubt that the two agreements reached at Camp David&$151;negotiated together and signed together?are related...
...discussed the U.S. proposals and Egypt's response to them. Even more extensive negotiating went on between Vance and Khalil. Few clues emerged, however, about the course of the talks. When a reporter asked Sadat what he had discussed with Carter, the Egyptian replied, "No comment. This is another Camp David." He was referring to the complete secrecy that cloaked the September summit...
...other country in the Middle East is more important to U.S. economic and strategic interests than Saudi Arabia. Because of the immense oil wealth of the desert kingdom, its internal stability and its political moderation in Arab affairs, Washington has regarded Riyadh's support for the Camp David accords as vital to the success of any peace settlement. That support has not been forthcoming, despite pleas from Washington and Cairo. Saudi Arabia views any Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty as essentially bilateral and insists that only a comprehensive settlement involving all the confrontation states holds any real prospect for peace...
Last month Crown Prince Fahd, the de facto chief executive of Saudi Arabia's absolute monarchy, canceled a trip to Washington, ostensibly because of ill health. The Saudis had feared that the trip would coincide with U.S.-Egyptian-Israeli Foreign Minister talks at Camp David. Thus Fahd's arrival in Washington might have seemed to lend the Saudis' official sanction to the September accords, which Riyadh opposes as having been achieved at the expense of the rest of the Arab world. The continued upheaval in Iran and the growth of Soviet influence in South Yemen...