Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begin when Assistant Secretary of State Alfred ("Roy") Atherton resumes the shuttle between Cairo and Jerusalem in an effort to get the two sides to agree on a statement of principles that would govern a peace agreement. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had left Cairo three weeks ago in a mood of depression He returned last week buoyed by the support he received in the U.S. and in six European nations...
...mood on campus" was nowhere in sight Wednesday, as about 30 students braved Arctic temperatures to picket the Faculty Club, where the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) was discussing Harvard's investments in banks operating in South Africa...
...stopping off to drum up support in England, West Germany, Italy, Austria, Rumania and France. The next diplomatic move will be a series of shuttle flights between Cairo and Jerusalem, with Assistant Secretary of State Alfred ("Roy") Atherton Jr. as chief shuttler. "I think Sadat left in an upbeat mood," said a top Carter assistant. That mood lasted at least through Sadat's arrival in Austria, where he met with Israeli Opposition Leader Shimon Peres. The Egyptian President said in Salzburg that there was "sufficient momentum in the present peace initiative to achieve a final settlement...
...funny thing happened to Margaret Thatcher on the way to No. 10 Downing Street: the economy and political mood of Britain underwent a sea change. Less than a year ago the Tories were running 21% ahead of Labor in the polls, and Conservative Leader Thatcher was the odds-on favorite to become her country's first woman Prime Minister. Now the two parties are in a dead heat, and Prime Minister James Callaghan is more popular than his party while Thatcher lags behind hers...
...support the provisions they approved of rather than oppose the entire bill. But when he said the economy was doing well in all respects except the stock market, one guest cried: "In effect we are in liquidation! How can you say we are doing all that well?" The mood became even chillier when discussion turned to Carter's energy program. "It was about as intense and hostile as anything I have ever observed," said one participant. Charles Schultze, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, put the blame for the delays in passing the energy bill...