Word: sessions
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...executive order last week, Carter went out of his way to stress "my complete appreciation and confidence in Admiral Stan Turner." Carter sees Turner more often than previous Presidents saw their CIA chiefs. The admiral has briefed the President once or twice a week in hour-long sessions, usually alone. Turner prepares the agenda and spends ten to twelve hours reading background material for each session. According to a presidential aide: "Carter likes Turner's crispness, his grasp, his 'yes sir, no sir,' no-nonsense naval officer's style...
Thus did Robert S. Strauss, Jimmy Carter's chief trade negotiator, size up the importance of last week's Geneva session in the 98-nation trade talks sponsored by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Started in Japan more than four years ago to lower international tariff walls, the so-called Tokyo Round talks have proceeded at a snail's pace-mostly as a result of U.S. preoccupation with Watergate, the Viet Nam pullout and the 1976 presidential elections. Last week the negotiations entered a new and decisive phase, when the U.S. followed Japan...
...speakers who attended the discussion are members of the Bureau of the World Peace Council, an organization that will present arguments against nuclear proliferation at a special session on disarmament at the United Nations...
Charles Cristello, staff member of The Mobilization for Survival, another sponsor of the conference, said yesterday the meeting "will help focus attention on the upcoming United Nations special session on disarmament...
...King turned to his interviewer, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn. "I suppose," said Hussein with a grim smile, "we should be speaking in the past tense." The King read the dispatch aloud: President Anwar Sadat had withdrawn his delegation from Jerusalem and summoned the Egyptian parliament into special session...