Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem in Carter's effort to dramatize his program was that much of it had already leaked out. There had been divisions within his Administration over how tough a stand to take, and when to take it. And as a decision was being reached, final work was repeatedly delayed, first by the Egyptian-Israeli talks at Camp David, then by the frenetic end of the congressional session. Other leaks had sprung from the Administration's commendable efforts to brief key leaders in Congress, business and labor, as well as reporters, on what the program would require. The advance disclosures placed...
...Administration had reduced the federal budget deficit, a prime contributor to inflation, from $66 billion in Gerald Ford's last year as President, to less than $40 billion in the current fiscal year. He pledged to cut it to "$30 billion or less" next year. As part of the effort to do so, he said he would veto any plan for any income tax cut beyond the $18.7 billion slash recently enacted by Congress, even though "tax reduction has never been more politically popular than it is today...
...Carter Administration to visit a nation that the U.S. does not formally recognize. Schlesinger was hoping to sound out Chinese leaders on ways to end that anomaly. Jimmy Carter would like to recognize the Peking regime, preferably before the 1980 presidential campaign gets fully under way, but the effort involves major diplomatic difficulties, and it may provoke a political storm in the U.S. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who is traveling with Schlesinger in China, reports...
...level, the Israeli decision to expand the controversial settlements was an effort to appease the right-wing zealots in Jerusalem's ruling Likud coalition, who believe that Begin gave away too much at Camp David. By announcing that the settlements would be enlarged, Begin was trying to strengthen his position in the coalition and ensure that his own party would eventually approve the peace treaty by a wide margin...
...clearly the latest Israeli action was also an effort to chastise the Carter Administration for the visit last week of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Harold Saunders to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Saunders' purpose had been to assure Jordan's King Hussein that U.S. policy in the Middle East had not changed: Washington still believed that Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank is illegal. The U.S. hoped to convince Hussein that the time had come for him to join the peace process and to strengthen Sadat's position in the negotiations, increasing the chances...