Word: summits
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President Carter did an excellent job at the Camp David summit [Oct. 2] getting Sadat and Begin to bargain. It is now up to the Arab and Israeli worlds to accept the agreement, to make it work and to keep peace throughout the Middle East. James Palmer Philadelphia...
...cheers for President Carter, whose expert statesmanship has made peace in the Middle East attainable. Now he had better start solving some domestic problems. Inflation and the declining dollar affect every American citizen. The President will have to handle these issues with the same expertise he demonstrated at the summit talks...
...unemployment. But as inflation has become the No. 1 domestic economic problem, he can now revert to positions that appear to be more comfortable for him and give him a better chance of re-election in 1980. Although many critics have attacked him for fumbling and indecisiveness, the successful summit conference at Camp David has altered that public perception. Though many Democratic candidates try to avoid identification with the Carter Administration, the President himself is not an issue in the campaign...
Primarily on the basis of his gains in the field of foreign policy, and the general sense of moral leadership that came from his summit triumph, Carter has been able to turn around the results of hypothetical contests between himself and Gerald Ford. In trial heats polled in June and August, Ford came out ahead by eight percentage points. Today Carter would win 46% to 35% over his former opponent and carry all sections of the country. Carter would likewise beat Reagan, as he would have earlier this year; but perhaps because of his whirlwind tour on behalf of Republicans...
...first anniversary of Sadat's trip to Jerusalem. But where should the signing take place? Sadat himself proposes Mount Sinai, where the Lord gave the Law to Moses, a prophet revered in both Hebrew and Islamic tradition. The White House tends to like the idea. "Imagine that, a summit on a summit," reflected one Administration official. "What an event that would...