Word: catoctin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early afternoon, Reagan was on a conference call flung from Catoctin Mountain through Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia to his top people. The size of the tragedy was known by then. "I want a statement sent to Iran that we deeply regret this incident," he said simply. Later, when there was quibbling whether "regret" was an apology, Reagan ended the argument. "It's an apology as far as I am concerned. We're a moral nation, and we take responsibility for our mistakes...
...soon as plans for the summit were announced last Friday, speculation began on where it would be held. Locations mentioned included Camp David, the presidential weekend retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, and Williamsburg, Va., the colonial capital in which world leaders held an economic summit...
...White House official, declining to be named, indicated that Reagan would not be making his routine weekend foray to the Catoctin Mountains, but would say no more about the President's plans...
Hardly had the Camp David accords been signed on Sept. 17, 1978, when the participants began to argue about what they had agreed to during the 13 days they had spent together at the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. On Sept. 18, President Jimmy Carter told Congress that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin had agreed to a freeze on the building of new Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip until an autonomy agreement for those territories had been negotiated--a process that could take several years. For his part, Begin insisted that...
...giving a Lincoln Continental to Brezhnev at Camp David. Brezhnev's eyes shone when he saw the car. Without warning, he waved Nixon into the front seat, took the wheel and roared off as Secret Service men looked on aghast. He and Nixon hurtled down a narrow, twisting Catoctin...