Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government to create it." Creativity, however, is not exactly helped by the patchwork makeup of the 15-member Cabinet, which includes Socialists and Communists as well as nonpolitical technocrats, centrists and a lieutenant colonel. Last week, typically, the Cabinet set aside three days to discuss a series of sweeping economic decisions; the meeting broke up in disarray after the first day, and further discussion was postponed for a week...
Mass. Reaction. Reece and his photographer, Richard Suskin, join moderator Ted O'Brien to discuss "The Peace Seekers" with the studio audience. Audience reactions to T.V. reporting is important, but you never see much of it. And this one is not taped or edited--it's live. Ch. 7, 8:00 p.m. 1 hour...
That day a noon appointment for Schlesinger and Dinitz to discuss supplies for Israel was canceled, say the Kalbs, because Deputy Defense Secretary William Clements, "a wealthy Texas drilling contractor with close ties to the oil industry, had apparently persuaded [Schlesinger] that he needed more information about U.S. inventories before he could provide the Israelis with an exact timetable for deliveries...
Nixon and Assad were planning to discuss the possible resumption of diplomatic relations as well as the $100 million in the pending foreign aid bill that the Administration has said could go to Syria. But there was no getting away from the tougher subjects that were blocking a general settlement in the Middle East, and Assad gave Nixon the hard line. "No peace can be established in this region," he declared, "unless a real and just solution is found for the Palestinian question." In reply, Nixon said again that he had set out on his tour with no quick solutions...
...When Nixon put U.S. forces on alert early in the Middle East fighting last fall, Kissinger told the White House press corps that he could not discuss the drama then but would explain shortly. The explanation never came, and few reporters ever took him to task...