Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last day in office, and in many ways these were the most dramatic moments of my presidency. America's diplomatic, military and economic forces were marshaled, ready to respond to my command. It was a challenging and at times tormenting experience. I needed to be constantly alert, but there were periods when I realized I was not at my best. I was searching for new ideas, trying to understand more clearly one of the most intricate financial and political problems ever faced by any nation. At stake were the lives of 52 human beings imprisoned in Iran...
Begin said that many differences were not yet resolved, and that the basic disagreements were so broad as to require a few months of negotiation by technicians working full time five days a week. I then asked Sadat to respond. He said there was already a fundamental difference of opinion, even in these preliminary comments, about what we were to accomplish at Camp David. He stated that his peace initiative to Jerusalem had brought forth a new era. The era of war was coming to an end, he said. Sadat reiterated what he and I had agreed, that we must...
...then began to read his tough and unacceptable proposal, after requesting that Begin not respond until he had discussed it with his aides. When Begin agreed, both seemed relieved...
...then addressed the really tough issues. I told Begin that Sadat would never yield on leaving Israeli settlements anywhere in the Sinai. For him, complete sovereignty meant a total absence of Israeli dwellers. Begin did not respond, but it was my impression that he thought I was mistaken about this, that with other Israeli concessions, Sadat might change his mind...
...owners respond to all of these points with some reasonableness. The men in the helmets do deserve a generous raise, say their bosses, but Garvey and the players' representatives want to undermine critical management prerogatives. When the talks began last February, the union demanded 55% of the league's gross income, to be taken off the top and divvied up among the players according to the union's formula. Two weeks ago, Garvey came off the 55% proposal to demand 50% of the N.F.L.'s TV income, plus considerable other monies. But more important, the union...