Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter flew off from Andrews Air Force Base, after a surprisingly successful White House meeting with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, he had no advance assurance that his trip would not lead to an embarrassing failure. It thus entailed major political risks, both for the nations involved and for Carter personally. If he had to return home without having brought Cairo and Jerusalem substantially closer to agreement, he could be criticized for unwisely raising expectations, for wasting U.S. influence, and for improvising showy moves without any serious plan behind them. Said a Washington-based European diplomat: "It is extremely risky...
...issues still stalling the peace settlement. Involved in various aspects of the bargaining was the platoon of advisers accompanying Carter. In addition to Vance, they included Brzezinski, Defense Secretary Harold Brown and U.S. Envoy Roy Atherton. White House officials had been careful not to encourage hopes of success. On the flight to Cairo, a senior presidential aide stressed that Carter was "not particularly" optimistic and was "well aware of the fact that it is much easier for things to go wrong than to go right." This caution seemed warranted, for even before the Americans had landed, Egyptian Premier Moustafa Khalil...
...allowed that only "some words here or there" separated his position from the Israelis'. But this was not the candid revelation of progress that it seemed at first, because Carter then added, "We still have some problems, obviously." His grim mood upon leaving Egypt indeed seemed to signal that success was proving elusive...
...East is more important to U.S. economic and strategic interests than Saudi Arabia. Because of the immense oil wealth of the desert kingdom, its internal stability and its political moderation in Arab affairs, Washington has regarded Riyadh's support for the Camp David accords as vital to the success of any peace settlement. That support has not been forthcoming, despite pleas from Washington and Cairo. Saudi Arabia views any Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty as essentially bilateral and insists that only a comprehensive settlement involving all the confrontation states holds any real prospect for peace. In the meantime, Saudi economic...
...opinion polls since July 1978 (63% negative in the Harris survey), partly because voters generally believe that he is floundering in his foreign policy and has lost control of events. Said Joel Fleishman, director of Duke University's Institute for Policy Sciences and Public Affairs: "Carter needs a success. The ripest possibility is the Mideast, so why not go after...