Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...double chainlink, electrified fence topped with barbed wire; a hundred rifle-toting U.S. Marines; a few score heavily armed Israeli and Egyptian agents. This security barrier encircling Camp David last week effectively shut out a world intently curious and concerned about what was happening within the secluded presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. There at the summit, Jimmy Carter, Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin were starting the latest and one of the most momentous rounds in the three-decade search for an Arab-Israeli peace. Said a somber Carter just before departing...
Administration aides hope that the camp's facilities will encourage informal mixing. The presidential retreat offers tennis courts, a one-hole golf course, a bowling alley and a heated swimming pool. It is difficult to imagine Begin or Sadat working off tensions on the trampoline, but they may take to the nature trail that winds through the thick woods. For evening entertainment, Carter enjoys showing movies to his guests in Hickory Lodge, and both the Egyptians and the Israelis have expressed interest in westerns. (White House aides were joking last week that both would like...
...first hours that President Carter was back at his White House desk from his Western retreat, he was briefed on the legislative tangles his natural gas bill had encountered. At least two or three times, a faraway look came into his eyes and he chuckled, "I wish that I was back on the Salmon River...
...enemy's lines, one of the most startlingly successful maneuvers of all time. He then recklessly and arrogantly pressed his luck. Despite repeated warning signs from Peking, he pushed U.S. troops up to the Manchurian border. Massed Chinese soldiers intervened and drove U.N. troops into a bitter winter retreat. The war was needlessly widened at the very moment that victory was in sight...
...page to a feature column, "Biting the Backlash." In it, Runner-Writer Colman McCarthy mourns that his fellow treaders "are being knocked, mocked and socked." He prescribes a strategy for runners in the face of backlash. They should enjoy the derisive jokes, he says, and then more or less retreat metaphysically into their own misunderstood superiority. Toward that end he commends to them a line from T.S. Eliot: "In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away." Evidently True Runners are feeling the needle - but without getting the point. It is, simply enough...