Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peace and tranquillity would bear fruit. Yet by the time Vance took off for Washington two days later, an extraordinary effort to revive the peace talks had begun. Like Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had accepted Jimmy Carter's invitation to attend a trilateral summit meeting on Sept. 5 at Camp David, Carter's retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland...
...United Nations mandate to police the Sinai II disengagement line-an action that could once more throw the area into chaos. Washington was also worried about Saudi Arabia's pressure on Sadat to reconcile his differences with Syrian President Hafez Assad. That could lead to an Arab summit at which Egypt would be accepted back into the Arab fold, thereby bringing the current negotiations to an end and raising new uncertainties about what course the Arab world might then take...
Nobody harbors the illusion that the summit will produce a comprehensive settlement on the Middle East. For the moment, after all, the critical issues that separate the Israelis and the Arabs-the future of the West Bank and Gaza and of the Palestinians -are as unresolved as ever. So the objective at Camp David will be to make some measurable progress on the outstanding questions and, most important, to reach an agreement to keep the negotiating process alive...
...their summit meeting near Rabat, Hassan urged Rabin to begin by meeting quietly with the Saudis, who bankroll the Egyptian economy. With Rabin's approval, Hassan then proceeded to arrange a rendezvous in Morocco between the Israeli Premier and Saudi Arabia's influential Crown Prince Fahd. Fahd agreed to the meeting, but a week before it was to take place, in early 1977, the Saudis canceled it without explanation...
...event, one of the few socialist spectaculars that offer the younger generation a good time. He also saw the festival as a good place to justify his country's interventions in Africa. His policy needed a bit of bolstering, to be sure: at a nonaligned Foreign Ministers summit in Belgrade last week, some delegates attacked Moscow and Havana-rather than Western imperialism-as the current threat to Third World neutrality...