Word: primed
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...Warsaw by two interpreters who seemed unable to convert Jimmy Carter's English into accurate Polish. The live TV mike in New Delhi that enabled pool reporters to hear the President undiplomatically instructing Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to send a "cold and very blunt" note to Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai about his nuclear policy. The dinner in the same capital dominated by a singleminded flycatcher who hovered behind Carter until -swat!-he nailed his prey and plucked it daintily from the linen. The Secret Service walkie-talkie conversations that somehow got broadcast over a microphone...
When the Carter party flew into Riyadh, the prime topic of discussion was the impending resumption of talks between Egypt and Israel at the Prime Minister level. The Saudi Arabian King and Crown Prince remained unwilling to join the peacemaking process until more progress was made on the general principles of any settlement. When the talks turned to energy, the Saudis apparently hinted that they could not hold the current line on oil prices unless something was done to check the sliding foreign value of the U.S. dollar. Their position gave further incentive for dramatic action in Washington...
...Jimmy Carter's on-the-job education than in terms of concrete accomplishments. Reported TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud: "Carter cannot help being changed by his experiences abroad. He has seen the poverty of India, the grimness of Poland, the civilized beauty of France. Conversations with the likes of Prime Minister Desai of India and President Giscard of France will enhance his sophistication in foreign affairs. People were interested in Carter, seemed to like him and respect him. He did not excite them or move them. Yet he seemed to leave every country with a better feeling about...
...told Carter that if Israel offered self-determination to the Palestinians, Saudi Arabia would use considerable influence to bring Syria, Jordan and the moderate Palestinians into the talks. If the Saudis were to give Sadat strong support without first receiving such assurances, the House of Saud would become a prime target of Arab radicals...
There is no energy czar at Harvard. Goodwin says, "One of my prime functions is to look at energy conservation, but to say that I'm the sole person is not true," adding, "There are 50 some odd energy monitors" at Harvard...