Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most momentous votes in this session of Congress, and the outcome was excruciatingly uncertain until the very last minute. Nearly every member-413 out of 435-turned up to cast a vote on President Carter's request to end the 42 month-old U.S. embargo on arms for Turkey. The ban had infuriated the Turks and weakened the southern flank of NATO. Whether or not Carter would succeed in persuading Congress to lift the embargo was seen as a major test for his Administration...
...trying to get the attention of the presiding officer, Don Fuqua of Florida. A key handful of them had not yet voted, and others were ready to change their votes. Roars greeted a sudden change in the wall tally; it was now 204 to 202 against Carter's request. But then four more members voted and the count shifted dramatically...
...G.O.P. chiefs swung reluctantly back into action. They resented the idea that they would have to rescue Carter, but they were acting at the request of a rather extraordinary Carter ally: none other than Gerald R. Ford, their one-time House comrade and President for 29 months, who lost to Carter by only 3% in the 1976 election. Responding to the G.O.P. leaders' promptings, Republican Richard Schulze of Pennsylvania signaled that he was changing his vote. The clerk of the House then cried, "Off no, on yes." To jeers, laughter and applause, the tally shifted again...
...Israel should not make such a unilateral concession. But instead of sending the Israeli rejection through private channels, Begin publicly announced after the meeting that "nobody can get anything for nothing, and this is going to be the policy of Israel." Sadat, who had never intended that his informal request should be publicized at all, was stung. When Begin's letter informing him of the decision arrived the next day, he rejected it. As a further sign of his fury, Sadat then ordered home the nine-man Israeli military mission that had remained in Egypt since the military talks broke...
...Israel, meanwhile, the Labor Party opposition kept up its attack on Begin for his handling of foreign policy, his failure to halt inflation and even his physical and mental ability to carry on as Premier. "Clumsy," said former Foreign Minister Abba Eban of the handling of the Sadat request. Said another high-ranking political opponent after the Israeli mission was sent home: "This is the beginning of the end. We are heading toward the total collapse of the peace negotiations...