Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nationally-televised news conference last night before a joint session of Congress, Carter said Vance will leave today to meet with the Arab leaders...
Next morning, after badly needed shaves and a quick change of clothing, the three men capped their journalistic marathon by heading for Saadabad Palace and an audience with the Shah. Though arrangements for the session had been made a week earlier, before the clashes in Iran's streets, the monarch kept his appointment with the three TIME representatives. For 90 minutes, over cups of tea, he answered their questions calmly, yet with obvious melancholy...
That evening the three leaders dined separately. Afterward Begin walked to Aspen Lodge for the summit's first formal session. With no aides present, Begin and Carter conferred for two hours in the small private study, with the President taking notes. All that is known about their discussion is that Carter suggested and Begin agreed that the three leaders issue a joint prayer for the success of the talks...
Later that day the first tripartite session convened around the circular coffee table on the Aspen patio; it ran one hour and 40 minutes. The following morning the three leaders met for three hours in Aspen's study. By the end of the week they had met for a total of 6½ hours, but what few details were released had nothing at all to do with the subject of the talks. White House Press Secretary Jody Powell noted, for example, that Carter was "participating actively" and that "the personal relationships [of the principals] are good...
...based Incomes Policy). This is a long discussed plan either to impose penalty taxes on employers who raise wages too much, or to give tax cuts to workers and companies who keep wage and price boosts moderate (see box). Carter may introduce a TIP plan in the next session of Congress...