Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with barbed wire; a hundred rifle-toting U.S. Marines; a few score heavily armed Israeli and Egyptian agents. This security barrier encircling Camp David last week effectively shut out a world intently curious and concerned about what was happening within the secluded presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. There at the summit, Jimmy Carter, Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin were starting the latest and one of the most momentous rounds in the three-decade search for an Arab-Israeli peace. Said a somber Carter just before departing for Camp David...
...thing is certain. As soon as the summit ends, the cloak of secrecy that has covered it will be torn away. Sadat and Begin are sure to go public-and in detail-with their versions of what happened in the mountains of Maryland. Begin, for example, intends to remain in the U.S. for four days and tape at least one TV discussion. Sadat also plans to linger in the U.S. for a few days to lobby key members of Congress and give interviews. For his part, Carter will probably report to the nation on the meeting. Whether it succeeds...
...desk in Jerusalem, he was working no more than his normal rigorous schedule. All this seemed a strange way for the leaders of the U.S., Egypt and Israel to prepare for the momentous summit conference that convenes this week at Camp David, the secluded presidential retreat in the Maryland hills. Observed one astonished diplomat involved in planning the meeting: "I expected frantic activity these weeks. But so far nothing's happening...
...would be hard to imagine a conference site more remote from the tensions of the Middle East than Camp David, a 143-acre aerie perched atop a 1,880-ft. hill in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain, 75 miles northwest of the capital. Franklin Roosevelt was so fond of sneaking off to his hideaway that he called it Shangri-La. There he and Winston Churchill planned Dday. Dwight Eisenhower changed the name of the retreat to that of his grandson David, and the new name later became synonymous with a thawing of the cold war. "The spirit of Camp David" derived...
Much of the corruption has emerged in GSA's Region 3, which includes the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Delaware-an area that accounts for 44% of GSA purchasing. Last week GSA Administrator Jay Solomon announced that 50 indictments are expected in a matter of weeks, most of them involving fraud in the repair and maintenance of federal buildings in Region 3. Eventually, more than 500 indictments are expected nationally...