Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jimmy Carter last week showed that he accepted this advice. Playing host to Israeli Premier Menachem Begin in Washington, a week after conferring with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Carter won an agreement that the two sides would keep talking, on an accelerated schedule, about autonomy for the Arabs living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. That was all: there was no break-through whatever on substantive issues -but then, Carter did not seek...
That he did not came as a relief to Begin. The Israeli Premier flew to Washington expecting to be pressed hard for concessions. He had indeed prepared a onepage, unyielding summary of Israeli positions that he handed to Carter at the start of their seven hours of intensive discussions, spread over two days. And, speaking to American Jewish leaders in Washington, Begin insisted that Jews have "an inherent and eternal right" to establish settlements in the West Bank...
Though Carter on many previous occasions has assailed the Israeli settlement policy as a "hindrance" to peace, he did not raise the issue in his talks with Begin. Nor did he respond to the other points in Begin's memo, even when the Israeli Premier asked him to do so. "Let's ask Sadat," Carter murmured...
...losses in last year's election, "historic compromise" of a governing alliance with established democratic parties has become elusive. For one thing, the Communists were shunted into outright opposition by the new center-left coalition government of Christian Democrats, Socialists and Republicans formed two weeks ago by Premier Francesco Cossiga. For another, the Communist Party's own vaunted internal discipline has suffered; last month, for the first time, more than 30 left-wing Communist deputies rebelled against their party whips on a foreign policy vote in Parliament. By going to China, which Italy's militant left regards...
Procedures for getting the public to support broad shifts in policy are built right into the political system. Though responsibility for overall economic policy rests with the Premier and his Cabinet, all government departments and agencies have policy study groups that range from a handful to 200 or more businessmen, scientists, lawyers, journalists, farmers and others. Usually, the outside advisers approve departmental actions, but sometimes policy initiatives are scrapped. Example: to help close a fiscal 1980 budget deficit, the Finance Ministry last autumn recommended a corporate tax increase. It was shelved when businessmen on the ministry's Tax System...