Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flew to Ismailia on Christmas Day, Menachem Begin was fortified by the Israeli Cabinet's unanimous approval of his peace plans ?approval gained in a 7½-hour closed session of the Cabinet. In his briefcase were the proposals that Begin had discussed with Jimmy Carter the weekend before, though by now they had been refined considerably. Begin's arrival in Egypt, like Sadat's in Israel, was another historic step, though this was no state visit. There was no pomp and ceremony. Only a small group greeted Begin's 707 as it landed at the military airbase...
Barring disaster, the Begin-Sadat Christmas meetings could produce an umbrella declaration of principles and perhaps a token arrangement of mutual good will. After that, the Cairo conference already in session could itself be raised to the ministerial level for purposes of negotiating a detailed settlement. Sadat has told TIME (see interview) of his willingness to make his arrangements with Begin, and then inform the other Arab states that he has negotiated a framework in which they too can negotiate. In effect, Sadat is thinking of a separate peace with sequels?leaving the other Arabs to work on their...
...General Assembly session in September, Carter met with all the Arab Foreign Ministers and the Israeli Foreign Minister to start giving momentum again to the peace process...
...leaving on his private jet for last week's price-setting meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Venezuela, Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani picked up his Arab worry beads to take them along. He could have left them at home. During the two-day session at the beach resort of Caraballeda outside Caracas, Yamani gave his fellow oil ministers a tough display of Saudi Arabian power in oil politics. Arguing that the international economy is too weak and world oil supplies too high to support an increase over the current $12.70 per bbl. price, Yamani...
...that Sadat made his historic trip to Jerusalem. Last Wednesday, exactly 26 days later, Egyptian and Israeli delegates were sitting down together in a Cairo conference room, in the very shadow of the pyramids, to lay the groundwork for full-scale peace talks. At the very moment that the session was being called to order, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was headed for Washington to meet with President Carter, a sudden summit conference arranged in a matter of hours at Begin's request. After two meetings with Carter-one early Friday, one late Saturday-Begin said that he would confer...