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...Knesset's treatment of Carter, as it turned out, was much friendlier than that accorded Begin. Obstreperous deputies subjected the Premier to such prolonged heckling that at one time the Speaker had to plead: "Please, only one heckler at a time." Some hard-lining members of Begin's own Likud faction accused him of abandoning Israel's claims to the West Bank, while Communists shouted that the government was suppressing the Palestinians...
...Jimmy Carter once described the issues that kept the Egyptians and Israelis from signing a peace treaty for six months after the Camp David summit. In fact, negotiations were completed on a framework for settling nearly all of the major issues at the September summit, which ended with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signing two accords. The first was an outline of a comprehensive Middle East peace; the second was a general description of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Highlights of the overall settlement, including the details worked out last week...
Raymond Barre made the rashest of vows when President Valery Giscard d'Estaing appointed him Premier of France in August 1976. He promised to cure the country's inflation-racked economy in three years. As that deadline approaches, the roly-poly former economics professor has become the target of increasingly heavy fire from trade unions, the leftist opposition and even the largest party in his own coalition, the Gaullists. Last week, at the insistence of Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac, the French parliament was called into emergency session for the first time since World War II. Although Barre...
...Premier's "new revolution "provokes an outcry...
Barre's steel measures are part of what has been dubbed "the new French revolution." That is the Premier's attempt to reduce the government's traditionally massive interference in the country's economic affairs. Though railways, utilities and many industries have long been nationalized, Barre is insisting that state-owned companies turn a profit. His model: West Germany's free-enterprise-oriented economy. Barre's government has already dismantled an archaic system of price controls that contributed to inflation because it eliminated incentives to lower prices in a competitive market. Now the Premier...