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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...separate bilateral sessions, between the U.S. and Egypt and between the U.S. and Israel. Vance and other top U.S. officials, for example, would meet at Holly Lodge with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and other senior Israeli officials; the U.S. team would 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Sealed-Lips Summit | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...laughed. "But when the November elections are over, I intend to sit down and do some thinking. If I decide to go I'll sure let you all know." As John Connally talked and joked, he was standing there on the very top of the hill that looks out over all of Washington. We may be hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: He'll Let Us Know | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...consider that the United States negotiated the Panama Canal Treaty for 14 years, it is realistic to expect that negotiations on the Middle East will take a while. I am not talking of years but of months-months of intensive negotiations. By this I mean our people should sit together five days a week. It will be necessary to have such serious discussions in order to bring about peace. We shall certainly do our best at Camp David to achieve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Mood Is Strong | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...season gets under way, TV's best show remains unchanged: it is the daredevil, off-screen saga of Master Programmer Fred Silverman. Newly enthroned as president of third-place NBC, Silverman just will not sit still. Last week on the eve of the new season's first premieres, he upstaged the entire industry by ripping up his own previously announced schedule. Silverman changed the prime-time lineup on five out of seven nights, shifting the long-running Saturday Night at the Movies to Wednesday and announcing a smorgasbord of "stunts" (movies and specials) for the fall. Says Mike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1978-79 Season: I | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...self-confessed "baby freaks." Though they have two children of their own and have adopted three others, they wanted still more. But Mary has had three miscarriages, possibly because of blood disorders. So when she became pregnant again, she decided that "we're not just going to sit back and lose another baby." Now, she has given birth to a 7-lb. girl at the University Hospitals of Cleveland. While the baby may still need an exchange transfusion, mother and daughter should be discharged shortly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Helping Hand for the Newborn | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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