Word: premier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Sadat, starting at a working lunch Sunday a few hours before the Egyptian President spoke to the Knesset. The location was the King David Hotel. Sadat, who customarily eats a late breakfast and skips lunch, sipped juice and coffee while the five other participants-Begin, Dayan, Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin, Sadat Aide Hassan Kamel and Egyptian Socialist Liberal Party Leader Mustafa Kamel Murad-ate heartily. Once pleasantries were over, Dayan was the first to talk about substance: "Let's hear what you expect from...
...King David for a larger, more formal dinner after Sadat and Begin had delivered their speeches to the Knesset. By then there was a slight chill of disappointment around the table; the Israelis were disappointed that Sadat had not offered them something new. The President and the Premier, seated side by side, conversed diffidently; Sadat finally sought Dayan's attention but discovered he was seated on the one-eyed Foreign Minister's blind side. In friendly fashion, Sadat literally turned Dayan around to face him. They started a new conversation about continuing lines of communication; it eventually...
...century's video technology monitored the principals in one of the planet's oldest enmities, as they performed for the world on their biblical home ground. The effect was eerie and complicated. Sometimes it produced a charming bathos, as when, under TV's smiling gaze, former Premier Golda Meir made fond Jewish grandmother's banter with Sadat about his new grandchild. In October 1973, the two had hurled armies at one another across the Sinai...
...Paris, Caramanlis won the 1974 Greek elections by a landslide. On the night of that victory, the streets of Athens spilled over with crowds of worshipful supporters cheering and waving flags. Three thousand diehard followers shouted "Caramanlis! Caramanlis!" outside his house until dawn; twice during the night the Greek Premier stepped out on the balcony to wave at them from the heights in shared triumph...
Last week the idol that was Caramanlis turned out to be-in the eyes of Greek voters-just another mortal politician. In an election he had called a year early to seek a new mandate, the conservative Premier won a second term, but with a greatly reduced majority. Caramanlis' New Democracy Party held on to 42% of the vote (against 54% in 1974); that translated into 173 seats in the 300-member National Assembly, according to the reinforced proportional system that rewards big parties. Nonetheless, the total was down from the 215 that New Democracy had before. No fewer...