Word: discussants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, the minutes disclose that Carter and his Cabinet at times discuss unfavorable press notices and congratulate each other on good ones. On Nov. 7, for example, the minutes note, "The President said that he is pleased that three Cabinet members appeared on Sunday television talk shows: Vice President Walter Mondale on Meet the Press, Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal on Face the Nation and Defense Secretary Harold Brown on Issues and Answers." The main business of the meetings is the description by Cabinet members of their current agendas in brief, almost telegraphic reports. For instance, after attending a conference...
Even as the Knesset started its deliberations, direct communications between Jerusalem and Cairo were quietly restored; they had been cut off last July by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat because of his frustration over the then deadlocked peace discussions. This week, at the end of the two-day Jewish New Year celebrations, Israeli negotiators will fly to Cairo to discuss where, when and how the negotiations will be carried out. The Egyptians want to hold them at Ismailia, the Suez Canal town where Begin paid a call on Sadat last December, following Sadat's historic trip to Jerusalem...
...will play a key role in the negotiations. Last week, Washington's roving Middle East ambassador, Alfred Atherton, arrived in Israel after a tour of Arab capitals. There he announced his intention to discuss some of the unresolved questions about the future of the West Bank with Palestinians who live under Israeli occupation...
Giamatti answers the questions on South Africa with his usual eloquence, saying he wants to be asked questions, but thinks the corporation report speaks best for itself. The conversation stagnates. He fails to discuss specific solutions...
Stanley E. Flink, director of public information at Yale, perhaps limits the president's ability to freely discuss his views. Flink, constantly mindful of the time limit, is quick to offer press releases instead of answers. Giamatti begins to deplore the situation in South Africa and says he agrees in principle that universities and banks could demonstrate their feelings by divesting of their investments in American corporations which prop up the white minority government. He adds, however, "everyone has ethical responsibilities, but one wants to balance them. Divestiture is not the best way to bring about change in South Africa...