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...President then launched a remarkable campaign to undo his own deed. Griffin was invited to the White House, where officials praised his talents as an administrator. Most important, Vice President Walter Mondale was assigned the task of finding him another job. At midweek, the White House announced that Griffin had accepted a newly created $50,000-a-year appointment as a "senior assistant" to Robert Strauss, the President's Special Trade Representative and Counselor on inflation...
...about the activities of a CIA agent who had been expelled from the U.S.S.R. last summer. Moreover, a commentary in Pravda blasted the President for endangering peace by engineering a "turnabout" in U.S.-Soviet relations and for meddling in Soviet internal affairs by his human rights campaign. At his midweek Washington press conference, Carter had vowed to continue speaking out in support of individual Soviet dissidents and to do "the best we can to acquaint the world with the hazards and consequences of increasing involvement of the Soviets and Cubans in Africa...
Mindful of that sentiment, both Byrd and O'Neill urged Carter to delay presenting the package to Congress. The President at first seemed adamant. At his midweek press conference he warned that if Congress rejected part of the package, then "my intent is to withdraw the sales proposal altogether." His reasoning, as Press Secretary Jody Powell explained later, was that if commitments to both sides were not honored, U.S. standing in the Middle East would be damaged...
...their stampede to buy before they missed out on potential profit, investors shrugged off news that only a fortnight ago might have sent prices into a spin. Some highly technical midweek moves by the Federal Reserve to drain money out of banks and thus nudge up interest rates depressed stock prices for only a few hours. Traders concentrated instead on cheerier trends, above all a long overdue rebound in the dollar on world markets...
...midweek Israel's Defense Minister Ezer Weizman flew to Cairo for the fifth time since last November. This was the first high-level meeting between Israeli and Egyptian officials in nearly two months, and for that reason alone was interpreted by some observers as a new, tentative step toward serious negotiations. After two rounds of talks, and three hours of discussion between Sadat and Weizman, the Egyptian government announced that the Israelis had offered no new proposals and that there would be no more formal meetings of the political or military committees until Jerusalem had changed its position, notably...