Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ability as a negotiator and reconciler. Sitting on the porch of Aspen Lodge, overlooking the pool, he will try to dispel the suspicions and antagonisms that have built up between Sadat and Begin. Said one top Administration official: "It's not so mechanical as in a strategic negotiating session. A lot stems from human qualities and reactions. The introduction of ideas depends on intuitive insight...
...soldiers never die. They just fade away," MacArthur emotionally told a joint session of Congress when he returned. He did gradually fade away, although he served for a time as chairman of Remington Rand (later Sperry Rand) and occupied a plush apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, which he shared with his second wife, Jean, and his son, Arthur. He was not ordinarily given to candor about himself, but a few years before he died in 1964, he gave some indication of what it had been like to be Douglas MacArthur. "My mother put too much pressure...
...second floor of the building, a meeting of the Chamber of Deputies was under way. The session, dealing with taxes, was being covered by 24 reporters. "Suddenly we heard shooting coming from outside," Journalist Luis Manuel Martinez recalled later. Martinez, a Cuban exile and a well-known antiCommunist, regularly covers the legislature for Novedades, the official newspaper of the Somoza regime. "A few minutes later, a man dressed in a uniform walked into the middle of the room carrying a submachine gun. Without warning, he fired into the ceiling and shouted: 'Everyone on the floor!' We all dived down...
...both stunned and elated. When presented with a similar letter the previous morning, Begin had agreed to the meeting without a moment's hesitation. But this did not surprise U.S. officials, since the Israelis had been saying for months that they were prepared to attend another high-level session with the Egyptians...
...Sept. 4 and go directly to Camp David. Begin may arrive a day or so earlier. There will be no preliminary gathering of foreign ministers, and the delegations will be small. Each head of government will bring three principal advisers and a few other aides. Carter will open the session by conferring with Sadat and Begin individually. He will then chair the first trilateral meeting. No time limit has been set for the talks. "They could last two, four, even ten days," says one official. "Whatever is required." The best guess is two or three days...