Word: premier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether by inadvertence or design, Jimmy Carter last week almost threw the Middle East peace drive into an icy spin. In a conversation with news correspondents on a nationwide television hookup, Carter declared that Israeli Premier Menachem Begin had taken "a long step forward" by offering self-rule to the Palestinians on the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip; only a week earlier he had told Begin in Washington that many of his proposals had not gone far enough. Then, almost in passing, Carter added that the U.S. could not countenance "a radical Palestinian state...
...term "momentum" seemed still in force, thanks chiefly to the efforts of Begin and Sadat at their Christmas meeting in Ismailia. Though the meeting was roundly criticized last week-by many Arabs who felt that Begin had offered too little, and by right-wing Israelis who felt that their Premier had gone too farthe effort had produced some promising results. For the first time, Arabs and Israelis had embarked on high-level negotiations face to face. To be sure, they were unable to settle on a joint declaration of principles, but they did agree to set up Foreign Ministers...
...scarcely seemed like a meeting of two countries still technically at war when Egypt's Anwar Sadat welcomed Israel's Menachem Begin to Ismailia last week. First the Israeli Premier was flattered by being invited to witness a purely internal Egyptian matter-Mohamed Ibrahim Kamel taking the oath as Egypt's new Foreign Minister. Then Sadat led his guest to a tiny room for a private chat, and the hearty laughter of the Egyptian leader rang through the heavy doors. This cordiality, reports TIME Correspondent David Halevy, who talked with some of those present, characterized most...
...Premier Giulio Andreotti's minority Christian Democratic Cabinet had suddenly stalled. Its parliamentary pact with other parties was in disarray. An all-out general strike, threatened by the unions, held the possibility of toppling the government altogether. And a swelling chorus of leftist parties, led by the Communists, was demanding the formation of an all-party "emergency government." As the Italian Socialist Party newspaper Avanti! warned: "The countdown against Andreotti has begun. " From Rome last week TIME Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante cabled this report on the latest stage in Italy's ongoing crisis...
...months, longer than the average life span of most postwar Italian governments, Andreotti's Cabinet has survived and even prospered with the support of the Communists and other major parties. The Premier reduced inflation from 25% to less than 15%, shored up the vulnerable lira, and even brought the 1977 balance of payments into the black...