Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began as a bleak week, and it remained one. The swirl of events was so stormy hat at one point Carter considered postponing his Mexican trip−a move that would hardly have pleased the Mexicans. The President had also considered postponing his press conference last Monday, in the hope that the chaos in Iran might have cleared before he answered questions about it. He decided instead to use the conference to extend an olive branch. Said he: "We have been in touch with those in control of the [Iranian] government, and we stand ready to work with them...
...month became the new chairman of the prestigious Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Church insists that he wants to be a Carter ally, despite his recent criticism of U.S. moves in the Middle East and Taiwan, but the White House is worried. Says one presidential adviser about Church: "We were hopeful, but the hope is fading...
Nitze's hope is that after long years of relative indifference, the U.S. people are now beginning to listen to what he says. This week he is back testifying on the Hill. Fragments from his arguments echo in the questions of key Senators like Georgia's Sam Nunn and Tennessee's Howard Baker. And suddenly Nitze finds he is marching at times with old adversaries like former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Says Nitze: ''I think it is running...
...Iran overshadowed a coming event that is also crucial to U.S. interests in the Middle East. Next week Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Premier Moustafa Khalil will resume the Israeli-Egyptian dialogue at Camp David, with the guiding presence of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Clearly there is no hope for stability in the Middle East without a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. That vital first step, if it can be taken, would go a long way toward reassuring a number of nervous nations in the region about America's intentions and commitments...
Since no party in parliament commands a solid majority, many politicians believe the only hope for a strong government that could impose national belt-tightening lies in a grand coalition between the two biggest political groups: Ecevit's social-democratic Republican People's Party and the main opposition, former Premier Suleyman Demirel's conservative Justice Party. In response to public outrage over the Ipekçj assassinations last week, there were some signs of renewed political moves toward such a government of national unity, even though Ecevit and Demirel are notorious personal antagonists...