Word: successes
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...President wandered from table to table, chatting happily like a host who knows his party is a success. "This is one of those evenings that it has been hard to stay seated," he said. "I've been so excited." After the toasts, Begin and Sadat left the stage with arms around each other like vaudeville hoofers...
Ultimately, the success of the Egyptian-Israeli peace will probably depend on Washington. Notes L. Dean Brown, a former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan and now president of the Middle East Institute in Washington: "The main burden [in getting the treaty's terms fulfilled] will once again fall on the President. He will be forced to hammer out compromises on these serious problems, and that will take up an enormous amount of his time. But Sadat cannot afford to let Carter off the hook because the American's presence in the talks may be the only way to consistently...
...Saudis also tried to play a moderating role, with only limited success, at the meeting of Arab states in Baghdad last week to discuss what action to take against Egypt, the U.S. or Israel after the treaty signing. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud remained impassive as the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat argued for an economic boycott of both Egypt and the U.S. Declared Arafat: "l don't just want to cut off the tail of the snake, I want to crush its head. The U.S. is the head and Sadat the tail...
While the agreement is a step backward for the cause of peace, it has some positive results in that it will toughen the Palestinians in their confrontation with the Israelis and assure the success of revolution against reactionary regimes. From the American standpoint, the agreement will have a negative result: increasing enmity toward the U.S. and bringing the Arabs closer to the Soviet Union. But for ourselves, for us Arabs, that is a positive result. Why should we be closer to the Soviets? Because the Americans have challenged us. America is involved in a conspiracy [against the Arab world], primarily...
...some Congressmen have recently challenged the success of the AVF and the ability of the United States to respond adequately in the event of a conventional war. Nine bills now pending on the House and Senate floors suggest everything from reinstitution of registration for the draft as early as October of this year to compulsory "national service" for young people. The rationale behind most of the legislative barrage is symbolically simple-minded--we don't have enough men (and women) to fight in the event of war. Says Sen. John D. Stennis (D-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services...