Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sandwiched between the tripartite meetings were separate bilateral sessions, between the U.S. and Egypt and between the U.S. and Israel. Vance and other top U.S. officials, for example, would meet at Holly Lodge with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and other senior Israeli officials; the U.S. team would then move over to Laurel Lodge and sit down with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel and his associates. These sessions, which usually did not include Carter, Begin or Sadat, were apparently examining in detail the broad points raised by the tripartite gatherings. This was regarded as a positive sign. While there...
...summit ends without making much progress, the next move will surely be Sadat's. According to high-ranking Egyptians, he is considering several options. He could, for example, cancel the 1975 Sinai Disengagement Agreement. This would enormously increase tension in the area and could start a chain of events leading to new hostilities. Sadat could also ask the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israel's occupation of Arab lands and demand immediate withdrawal. If Begin emerges from Camp David splattered with blame for the summit's failure, then Washington might find it very difficult to veto such...
Israel, which would be forced to move its military forces out of population centers to clearly defined garrisons, appears ready to accept the proposal, the newspaper said...
...Mehta move was the grandest, most publicized stroke of all: his appointment as music director of the New York Philharmonic to succeed avant-garde composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. Not everyone in New York was delighted. Boulez had been a cool, ascetic leader. Mehta, by comparison, had a reputation for more gloss than substance. There was the question of his repertoire, which stressed Tchaikovsky and Strauss to the detriment of the early classics. Finally there was his famous contretemps with the Philharmonic. In 1967 he enraged the New Yorkers by reportedly declaring that his own Los Angeles Philharmonic was better...
...practically forgotten, from the time I was a guest conductor in 1974," says Mehta. "That was when I went on the stage and apologized." He is now very glad to be in New York. "New York is the center of the musical world, and I felt that I should move there now rather than at age 55 or so," he says...