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...same time, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was off on an eight-day, four-city campaign among American Jews to shore up support for his policies and build opposition to Carter's plans to sell advanced fighter planes to Egypt and Saudi Arabia as well as Israel...
...Gang of Four. China's leadership has consolidated, and seeks, under "the great banner of Chairman Mao," to reverse the course Mao set in the chaotic Cultural Revolution. Instead of the old emphasis on "political purity" and total equality between workers and officials, the major theme of the eight-day congress, the first since Mao's death, was China's need for order and a "united front" in the struggle to modernize China...
Begin decided to act early last week, when Secretary of State Cyrus Vance arrived in Jerusalem on an eight-day Middle East trip. He told Vance that he wanted to go to Washington to discuss a new set of Middle East peace proposals with Carter. The surprised Vance swiftly forwarded the request. Within three hours the White House replied: Come ahead...
Vice President Walter Mondale and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd blundered as they moved to shut off an eight-day filibuster-a fight that was actually being waged in support of the President's position. The impatience of the principals was understandable-up to a point. Byrd wanted a quick Senate vote, certain that deregulation would win momentarily but lose in conference with the House. He also saw the filibuster as a threat to his developing reputation for running the Senate briskly and feared that the Senate would end up with no natural gas bill at all. The filibuster...
While James Callaghan was making his plea to the trades unions for moderation, Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher was flying off for an eight-day visit to the U.S. Buoyed by recent by-election triumphs and polls showing her party well ahead of Labor, Mrs. Thatcher is confident that she will soon become Britain's first woman Prime Minister. Partly because of a casual commitment made on his visit to Britain last May, Jimmy Carter is making an exception in her case to a new White House practice that opposition leaders are received by the Vice President. While in Manhattan...