Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While attempting to create a new policy for the Persian Gulf, Carter must also try to revive the spirit of Camp David. Returning to | that secluded presidential retreat this week, Vance meets with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Egyptian Premier Moustafa Khalil in an effort to resolve the issues still blocking the peace outlined at September's summit...
...were frisked and paraded around the compound. The Marines among them, who had obeyed Sullivan's order to surrender, were kicked and beaten. Inside the embassy, about 70 staffers and a few other people sought refuge in a corridor outside Sullivan's office while Marines covered their retreat. When the guerrillas burst into the embassy, the group fled to the building's east wing, where the communications equipment was housed. While some of the staffers crowded into the locked communications room, a dozen employees hastily shoved classified papers into burn bags that were thrown into an incinerator...
...stake was the future of 300 million Roman Catholics, across a continent plagued by poverty and oppression. Would the bishops be swayed by the progressives in their midst and come out in favor of church activism for the coming decades? Or would they take a conservative line and retreat from tactics that threatened confrontation with repressive political regimes? Last week the bishops emerged with an 8,000-word final statement that mildly surprised most observers. While hardly radical in tone, it contained a stronger mandate for church involvement in social issues than had been expected...
...news blackout ordered by President Carter kept reporters and photographers out of the 147-acre retreat where the negotiations will be held in seclusion at least through the weekend...
...with a strong dollar and high technological and marketing prowess, was rapidly turning Western Europe into a sort of American commercial romper room. So much for that worry. What now seems to rouse European passions is not the threat of a Yankee invasion but the prospect of a disruptive retreat...