Word: camps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Both camps insist that they are running "issue campaigns," "We are running on the Senator's 12-year record," says a close advisor to Brooke. "We are running on what he is and what he has done." The Tsongas camp, most noticeably its candidate, has never strayed from talking about the issues. Tsongas quotes details, at embarrassing length, always returning to hammer home his issue stands. If it weren't for the private life issue, this election might well have been written off as boring in Massachusetts. Voters, the polls show, see no substantive differences in issue stands between...
...program was that much of it had already leaked out. There had been divisions within his Administration over how tough a stand to take, and when to take it. And as a decision was being reached, final work was repeatedly delayed, first by the Egyptian-Israeli talks at Camp David, then by the frenetic end of the congressional session. Other leaks had sprung from the Administration's commendable efforts to brief key leaders in Congress, business and labor, as well as reporters, on what the program would require. The advance disclosures placed a large burden on Carter's capacity...
...Blair House negotiations are as remarkable in their way as the Camp David summit that preceded them. Jimmy Carter has turned those negotiations into a very personal affair, re-establishing the kind of neighborhood Government that used to exist around Lafayette Park more than a century ago. "We feel it," said one of the participants. "The President is just at arm's length...
...level, the Israeli decision to expand the controversial settlements was an effort to appease the right-wing zealots in Jerusalem's ruling Likud coalition, who believe that Begin gave away too much at Camp David. By announcing that the settlements would be enlarged, Begin was trying to strengthen his position in the coalition and ensure that his own party would eventually approve the peace treaty by a wide margin...
...Israelis saw it, the Saunders mission was a high-pressure effort to lure Jordan and the Palestinians into the negotiations by publicly siding with the Arab interpretation of the Camp David accords. Israeli officials sharply criticized Saunders for endorsing Arab sovereignty over the West Bank and East Jerusalem, though this has been American policy for more than a decade. Most of all, the Israelis seemed to resent the timing of the Saunders trip, coming as it did while the Washington peace talks were in progress and while Begin was busy preparing his people and his parliament to support a settlement...