Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that session Carter gave Chief Aide Hamilton Jordan authority to coordinate policies and pull policymakers into line. The President began concentrating on only the most important issues, dropping the original every-thing-at-once strategy that had spread him far too thin and exasperated Congress. As U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young put it, "In the early days Carter felt that he could force Congress and history and everything else to work according to his flow chart. He has learned that it doesn't happen that...
After the morning session on their final day of talks in Geneva, Vance and Gromyko emerged looking grim and discouraged. Then they resumed negotiations for another four hours later in the day. When they came out, their mood had dramatically changed for the better. Relaxed and smiling, they said they had made enough progress not to have to meet again. They acknowledged that some substantive matters as well as certain details still had to be resolved, but these could be handled by the SALT negotiating teams...
...friend in OPEC did all it could to moderate the price increase. Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani is the unofficial leader of the oil world; his word is powerful. This time, however, he was considerably less argumentative than usual. By the time the first session broke up and the ministers put away their pocket calculators and journeyed in heavily guarded motorcycle caravans to dine at the air-conditioned palace of Abu Dhabi's Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, the new price had been virtually accepted. "We chewed on those figures a little more...
Last week, however, the committee received a disturbing new analysis suggesting that Oswald might have had an accomplice. A pair of acoustics experts testified in closed session that they had found a high probability that there was a fourth shot fired at Kennedy, and that it came from the grassy knoll in front of the presidential...
...Israelis were shocked by the proposals Vance had brought from Cairo, and especially by the implicit endorsement of them by the U.S. To Jerusalem, this amounted to adding "new elements" in a negotiating process that, the Israelis felt, was near completion. In its special session, Begin's Cabinet condemned the Egyptian proposals as "inconsistent with the Camp David framework, or not included in it" and declared that it "rejects the attitude and interpretation...