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...congressional leaders to a White House breakfast to try to sell his tightfisted fiscal policies, he brought along both Burns and Schultze to back him up. A disgruntled Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., the House majority leader, who has known the two men for years, later complained to newsmen: "One of the two has changed. Somebody has changed, and I'm damned sure it isn't Tip O'Neill...
...reluctantly accepted the Moscow position only because the Soviets agreed to issue, at the time of SALT it's signing, what Vance described to newsmen in Geneva as "a statement of general principles which will govern the conduct of SALT III." According to the Secretary, this would amount to a Soviet "commitment" to negotiate deep cuts in strategic arsenals. As for the U.S. cruise missile and the Soviet Backfire bomber-contentious issues that have contributed significantly to the 2½year deadlock in the arms talks-it was apparently decided to ignore them in a SALT II treaty. Instead...
...Gromyko deliberately launched their own talks on an upbeat note by signing an extension of a treaty to cooperate in space science and medicine and to exchange data on missions to the moon. The two men even tried to foster cordiality by a little banter in the presence of newsmen. As lightning flashed among the Alpine peaks across Lake Geneva, Vance said to Gromyko: "Did you hear those thunderbolts? I was throwing them at you." Gromyko chuckled gamely...
...Jack and Jackie had never once invited him and Pat to the White House for a meal, even though he had previously been Vice President. He compared the bugging of Martin Luther King's hotel rooms under Attorney General Robert Kennedy to his wiretapping of Government officials and newsmen. But he conceded: "Two wrongs do not make a right, they make two wrongs...
...must be a resolution of the Palestine problem and a homeland for the Palestinians." Assad agrees with other Arab leaders that the creation of a Palestinian state is required for peace. In Jeddah, meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd-who will visit Washington next week-suggested to newsmen that the Palestine Liberation Organization would be willing to recognize Israel's right to exist in return for a Palestinian state on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. U.S. diplomats, however, doubted that P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat and his followers were ready to make such a commitment right...