Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab cause but is working for an overall settlement. Sadat has been disappointed that the Saudis, whose economic support is crucial to Egypt, have not publicly endorsed the Camp David accords. In truth they have been giving him some behind-the-scenes help. At a pan-Arab summit conference in Baghdad, which was convened by Iraq to counter the peace initiative, Saudi Crown Prince Fahd told the other delegates: "An attack on Sadat or Egypt will be considered an attack on Saudi Arabia." He went along with a pro forma condemnation of Camp David, but fought off efforts to impose...
...October 15 the first American team reached its summit. Notably, as the team would have you know, all ten members of the expedition were women...
...Blair House negotiations are as remarkable in their way as the Camp David summit that preceded them. Jimmy Carter has turned those negotiations into a very personal affair, re-establishing the kind of neighborhood Government that used to exist around Lafayette Park more than a century ago. "We feel it," said one of the participants. "The President is just at arm's length...
...more important than this modest support were the signs of growing cohesion among the Arab states that oppose Sadat. As a prelude to this week's Arab summit in Baghdad called by Iraq to counter the Camp David accords, Syrian President Hafez Assad flew to the Iraqi capital for a reconciliation with President Ahmed Hassan Bakr. Syria and Iraq have been enemies for years, largely because their governments are run by feuding branches of the Baath (resurrection) party, a pan-Arab movement founded some 40 years ago. Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council holds the hard-line view that...
...Arizona and Smithsonian astronomers joined forces on just such a telescope. Its locale: the summit of Arizona's 2,600-meter (8,500-ft.) Mount Hopkins...