Word: premieres
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...away, the discussions had bogged down, at least with respect to what anybody would have called substantive issues. Reviewing the situation, Jimmy Carter decided it was once again time to invoke the spirit, if not the reality, of Camp David. Carter's ploy: to invite Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin to visit him separately in Washington next month. The President was careful to play down the inevitable comparisons with Camp David; this time there were no plans for a summit bringing together the three men. But the President hoped that the talks would lead to new efforts...
Just one day after the White House announced the forthcoming visits of Premier Begin and President Sadat, Secretary of State Vance was attacked by members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who seemed as anxious as the President to show their support of Israel. The subject was the fiasco at the U.N. when the U.S. first supported and then repudiated a resolution criticizing Israeli occupation of Arab territory that it seized during the 1967 war. The caustic tone of the session was set by New York Senator Jacob Javits, a firm backer of Israel, who announced on Feb. 25 that...
...resurgence of terrorist violence (18 victims this year) has heightened national tensions to a more alarmed level than at any other time since the kidnap-murder of Politician Aldo Moro nearly two years ago. Last week public morale received a further blow when the minority Christian Democratic government of Premier Francesco Cossiga collapsed and plunged the country into what Rome politicians call a crisi al buio: a crisis in the dark. It was the 38th government to fall in the past 35 years...
...Dictator Francisco Franco, Spaniards have discovered that there is a lot more to making their new democracy work than dropping slips of paper into ballot boxes. Last week 946,000 voters in three Basque provinces went to the polls to elect a local parliament; the central government of Premier Adolfo Suárez had calculated that this new assembly might bring stability to the violence-prone region, isolating ETA terrorists, who have already killed twelve officials and claimed scores of bombings so far this year. The government strategy backfired: political parties allied with the ETA, which demands independence...
Despite their complaints about Suárez, few politicians believe that the Premier is likely to be unseated soon; all parties agree that another election would not really change the present balance of forces. But Suárez has shown signs of personal frustration. He has tended to withdraw inside Madrid's Moncloa Palace and surround himself with a coterie of protective advisers. An aide even goes so far as to liken his isolation to that of Richard Nixon in the White House...