Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House was assertively supporting Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, George Ball, an Under Secretary of State in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, now acting as a special consultant to Carter, was reportedly recommending that the U.S. encourage civilian rule. Finally, Carter was getting ready for a Western summit Jan. 5 and 6 on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe with British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt...
...reactions are hard to measure, but Western diplomats in Moscow agreed with Carter's assessment that the Soviets had long expected the U.S. move, and that, as the President said, this week's SALT talks "will not suffer any adverse effect." If all goes well, the Carter-Brezhnev summit is tentatively set for sometime during the week...
...Secretary of State Cyrus Vance shuttled for six days between Cairo and Jerusalem in hopes of getting a treaty by Sunday, Dec. 17, a psychologically important deadline because it had been set as the goal for a treaty when the Camp David summit concluded, in a burst of exuberant optimism, exactly three months earlier. But at week's end, reluctantly acknowledging that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin were still far apart on the few unresolved issues, a disappointed Vance abruptly cut short his shuttle and returned to Washington. As Vance headed home, a weary Sadat...
...that perhaps only the U.S. can do. To be sure, Press Secretary Powell griped last week that the Middle East talks have already devoured more Administration time than "any two or three" urgent domestic problems, such as inflation and unemployment. And the thought of convening another Camp David-style summit makes Administration aides shudder. Carter said it is "not my preference," and one senior official declared emphatically: "It is the last thing we want." With the Guadalupe summit of the West's leaders, a crucial round of the arms talks and a visit by China's Teng Hsiao...
...however, may have little choice. Whether it means being host at a new summit or merely launching Vance on another diplomatic shuttle, the Administration cannot afford to lose much time in trying to rekindle the Camp David spirit. The stakes are too high...