Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year's end Carter came close to achieving a triple crown in foreign policy: he established normal relations with mainland China and seemed to have a breakthrough on strategic arms limitations with the Soviet Union. But he failed to get Egypt and Israel to sign a peace pact, even though he had, almost singlehanded, brought them closer to peace at the Camp David summit than they had been in 30 years. His achievements were also somewhat diminished by the U.S. inability to help bring calm to Iran...
...long-stalled SALT II treaty to limit nuclear weapons. If all goes well-and White House officials maintained that the changed relations with Peking would not affect the SALT talks?Carter is expected to hold his first summit next month with Soviet Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev to sign the pact...
...missed deadline was especially unfortunate because a peace pact would have brought a welcome measure of stability to the Middle East at a time when the troubles in Iran threaten to plunge the entire region into turmoil. With the Shah's crown slipping and Sadat's peace initiative stalling, the moderate Arab camp is becoming increasingly vulnerable to attacks from radicals. A defeat of the Middle East's moderates would be a monumental setback for Western interests...
...question" of his Administration. A SALT II failure, he warned, would be "disastrous." At the mid-term Democratic convention in Memphis, Carter promised that SALT II would require the Soviets "to destroy several hundred of their existing missiles." Brezhnev also dwelt on the topic last week, calling for a pact "without further procrastination...
...Prize. Instead, he sent an aide and confidant, Sayed Marei, a former Speaker of Egypt's parliament. The cause of Sadat's disenchantment: the Middle East peace treaty negotiations begun at Camp David were still stalled over two issues. One was Israel's insistence that the pact should take precedence, in time of conflict, over Egypt's obligations to other Arab countries. The more nagging question was Sadat's demand for linkage of the treaty and the proposed negotiations over the future of the West Bank and Gaza, linkage that he and President Carter believed...