Word: flew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...correspondents were off to report on the consequences for this week's issue. Donald Neff joined Secretary of State Cyrus Vance on a flight to Jordan; Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn accompanied Sadat on his trip home; Dean Fischer interviewed Begin in New York City and then flew to Israel to await his arrival; Christopher Ogden and Laurence I. Barrett reported from Washington...
...prospects were not entirely unclouded, of course, either for the world or for Jimmy Carter. In the Middle East itself, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat received tumultuous welcomes home, but when Secretary of State Cyrus Vance flew to three Arab capitals to mobilize support for the Camp David agreements, he encountered reactions ranging from skepticism to outrage...
...Camp David summit. After 20 months on the job, Vance had finally helped score an important foreign policy achievement for the U.S., and he was justifiably proud. Wearing a sweater and slacks, he sat in the aisle talking to reporters for more than an hour. But as the plane flew eastward into the night the mood began to fade. And by the time the Vance mission ended some six days, three countries and 14,000 miles later, it was obvious that despite Camp David's great accomplishments, some major questions remained unanswered. What kind of peace was possible? Would...
Prime Minister James Callaghan was deeply embarrassed by the affair. Late last week, with Foreign Secretary David Owen, Callaghan flew off to Nigeria to meet Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda for urgent discussions on the deteriorating situation in southern Africa?and also to convince black Africa that Britain's oily hands were finally clean...
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance flew back from his five-day Middle East tour yesterday without gaining further Arab support for the Camp David accords...