Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's warm reception before Congress contrasted with earlier reactions to the summit results. The Palestine Liberation Organiza and Libya denounced the Camp David agreements, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed I. Kamel resigned protest Egyptian concessions...
Sadat can discard all of these options, of course, if the summit succeeds and a new "spirit of Camp David" is born. In that case the peace process would accelerate, and negotiations between Egypt and Israel would resume at a number of levels...
...thing is certain. As soon as the summit ends, the cloak of secrecy that has covered it will be torn away. Sadat and Begin are sure to go public-and in detail-with their versions of what happened in the mountains of Maryland. Begin, for example, intends to remain in the U.S. for four days and tape at least one TV discussion. Sadat also plans to linger in the U.S. for a few days to lobby key members of Congress and give interviews. For his part, Carter will probably report to the nation on the meeting. Whether it succeeds...
...summit ended the next day, with bitter denunciations. When Nyerere announced that the front-line states had agreed not to arrange any further direct contacts with Smith, Nkomo angrily retorted: "Nyerere is not the final authority on what may happen in Zimbabwe. He can't tell us what to do." Under "certain conditions," added Nkomo, he would talk with Smith again...
...vignette that might have been lifted from Evelyn Waugh's Scoop was being played out six miles away in the town of Thurmont, Md. (pop. 2,400). Just as a Newsweek reporter sat down to interview ABC White House Correspondent Sam Donaldson about his adventures covering the summit, a Swedish television crew glided up to film the exchange. Within seconds, an Israeli TV unit began filming the Swedes filming the Newsweek reporter interviewing ABC's Donaldson. Then two Egyptian journalists sidled over and started taking notes on how the Israelis were filming the Swedes filming...