Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Asian adventure, Ford was tempted to do just what his predecessor had done - use the summit euphoria to salve the domestic disruptions and the growing White House leadership malaise...
...Heaven. The phrase, an old quotation from Mao Tse-tung, was used to dramatize China's chief domestic rallying cry: total self-reliance. It also summed up China's reaction to Kissinger's four-day visit. Having arrived from Vladivostok after accompanying President Ford on his summit meeting with Soviet leaders, Kissinger was in Peking to reassure China that no secret deals had been made with the Russians and that improving relations with China remained, as Kissinger put it in his farewell toast, "a fixed principle of American foreign policy." The Chinese response was friendly, showing...
...accumulated rage that erupted at Bet She'an reflected a growing sense in Israel that the country faces yet another life-and-death crisis-perhaps the most severe in its brief 26-year history. The Israelis watched with sullen dismay when Arab leaders at the Rabat summit recognized the P.L.O. as the sole official representative of Palestinians everywhere, including those in the Israeli-occupied Gaza and West Bank. They listened hi cold fury as Yasser Arafat at the United Nations (TIME, Nov. 25) purportedly offered them an "olive branch" -but budged n6t an inch from his position that Israel...
...both Israel and Syria are partially responsible for the current rise in tension. The Israelis were too inflexible in their refusal to deal with Jordan over the West Bank in recent months, some U.S. officials believe, thereby weakening King Hussein and strengthening Arafat's position at the Rabat summit. But more important, in the U.S. view, Syrian President Assad, has been pursuing a "stalemate strategy" of seeking to prevent progress toward an Israeli settlement with Jordan and Egypt until Israel makes some concessions -like a partial withdrawal on the Golan Heights-to Syria as well...
...Egypt still negotiate with Israel after the Rabat summit...