Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then move over to Laurel Lodge and sit down with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel and his associates. These sessions, which usually did not include Carter, Begin or Sadat, were apparently examining in detail the broad points raised by the tripartite gatherings. This was regarded as a positive sign. While there were no full-scale bilateral Egyptian-Israeli gatherings, Sadat did meet alone with Defense Minister Weizman, the one Israeli with whom the Egyptian leader has established a warm personal rapport...
...economic and foreign policy, but not politically," says Professor J.C. Hurewitz, director of Columbia University's Middle East Institute. "He's given no freedom to the Iranian intellectuals. The result is that Iran suffers from a political vacuum: the people feel left out of things." One hopeful sign may be that the opposition does not have a common ground. Thus for their own purposes, both left and right would probably be satisfied if they were given a greater voice in government and if constitutional restrictions were placed on the Shah's absolutism...
...hopeful sign that in recent months the Shah has begun to make visible reforms in the political and human rights affairs of the nation. He fired the head of SAVAK, who had been identified with that agency's most notorious terror tactics, freed a number of prisoners, and promised to allow dissidents to be tried in civilian rather than military courts. But some specialists in the region blame those small liberalizing measures for the present turmoil. Says one: "Many Iranians took these changes as a sign that the Shah was weakening and responded with almost total cynicism...
...survive and eventually to die, by that same cycle of repression. It is because that cycle has been so unusually cruel, and has brought so much misery to the Iranian people, that those of us who have watched the recent uprising from afar can only see it as a sign of hope...
Carter cancelled his appearance at the White House party, honoring stock car race drivers, to work on the compromise formula. Carter faces a weekend of speechmaking and politicking, but there is no sign that he is imposing a deadline to end his talks with the Mideast leaders...