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...fishing and quail hunting. During his first 20 months in the White House, Carter tended to get most of his exercise through tennis, playing at least five times a week and teaching Rosalynn to play. He took up jogging a year ago, when he held the Middle East summit at Camp David and discovered he had no time for tennis. Says Lukash: "In his usual fashion, he went at it intensely...
...often sees the President as early as 6:30 a.m., when Carter pokes his head into the doctor's East Wing office to wish him good morning. If Carter is already working at that hour, Lukash will look in on him later in the day, just for a quick check of how he is feeling. "I'm not a medical albatross," says Lukash. "He sees so much of me that I try to blend in." He gives the President a complete physical annually, and does not believe more frequent ones are needed. "He's had no risk...
...change in policy, said one Carter Administration specialist in Middle East affairs, "only reinforces the arguments of those who say the Israelis are not serious about the whole autonomy process...
Listening to this exchange was Weizman, who suddenly accused Washington of making Israel "the villain in the Middle East" by criticizing its attacks on purported P.L.O. targets in southern Lebanon. Those raids, Weizman claimed, had produced a three-week respite in P.L.O. attacks. Snapped Saunders: "Bombing is not a policy...
...hour meeting with Arafat was the climax of a four-day "fact-finding tour" of the Middle East by leaders of the late Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.). In the course of what the organization's president, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, called a "divinely mandated" attempt to spread the gospel of nonviolence in the area, the S.C.L.C. leaders picked through the rubble of bombed-out villages in southern Lebanon, prayed for peace with Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis, and urged both Arafat and Israel to accept a moratorium on violent attacks. The civil...