Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signed within three months, major Israeli withdrawals within three to nine months after that, the normalization of all relationships between the two countries within a year and complete Israeli withdrawal from Egyptian territory within three years. Though the two agreements were not contingent upon each other, the aim was clear: through their joint application they could create a climate and a context of progress toward peace that would bring along the more reluctant elements in the Middle East that were not represented at Camp David, upon whose ultimate cooperation any durable peace depends. That includes not only the other Arab...
...Powell's briefings did little more than confirm that a summit was in session, at least they provided a skeletal view of events inside Camp David. In the first days of the conclave, it was clear that the U.S. was feeling out the positions of both the Israelis and Egyptians. As part of this process, the three leaders met together three times, for a total of 6˝ hours. Although the three weekend sabbaths?Muslim, Jewish and Christian?slowed the pace of the talks somewhat, they gave the participants an opportunity to review what they had learned and analyze potential areas...
...landmark judgment, Chief Justice Roger Taney threw out the case of one John Merryman, a Southern sympathizer who had been convicted of treason by a military court. Merryman appealed to Justice Taney, who found that Lincoln had sought to suspend habeas corpus when it was "perfectly clear under the Constitution that he had no such power." In a subsequent Civil War case, the Supreme Court found that the military had had no business trying a political agitator named Lambdin Milligan in Indiana when civil courts were functioning in the area at the time...
...Sheraton Boston hotel is not much of a place to call home. Depending on your socio-political dispositions, you are likely to emerge from a week of captivity there with either double-knit skin and a superficial handshake or with a clear antipathy towards good order and government...
...Well... I don't think he'll run, he's made that clear... but that's one bridge we'll have to look at... later." Oooooooooh. This was, perhaps, the first time Dukakis had ever blushed in public, as he realized the implications of his statement. It was a spark of comic relief in a media show full of nebulous ideas and statements...