Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Exploiting his diplomatic breakthrough, he calls for a summit in Cairo...
...P.L.O., whose panicky leaders last week worried whether they might end up as the losers in the new Middle East diplomatic moves. Although Sadat spoke forthrightly to the Knesset about Palestinian rights to a homeland, never once did he mention the P.L.O.-which Arab leaders, at their 1974 Rabat summit, had designated as the sole legitimate representative ofthe Palestinian people...
Nevertheless, Carter, Vance and their colleagues contributed significantly, if not always deliberately, to the atmosphere that made the Sadat-Begin summit possible. Whatever faux pas he committed along the way, the President succeeded in getting two of the principals in the conflict to lift their eyes from procedural details and ponder the prospect of a final, comprehensive settlement. From the outset of his Administration, Carter had made clear that the old step-by-step approach employed so effectively by Henry Kissinger was in danger of becoming a treadmill, and that haggling over credentials, timetables and terminology had become an excuse...
...years as a journalist, Walter Cronkite has covered his share of wars, assassinations, summit conferences and space shots, but few scoops were as sweet as this one. "There was a lot of desk-slapping and hot-diggity-damns around here," the anchorman beamed, after Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli Premier Begin were shown agreeing, on Cronkite's CBS Evening News last Monday, to schedule their historic meeting in Jerusalem. Says Cronkite: "We knew we were on top of something...
...Kissinger Aide Helmut Sonnenfeldt recruited Hyland for the newly upgraded National Security Council, where Hyland worked primarily on arms control. "SALT succeeded better and more quickly than any of us expected," says Hyland. Nixon and Brezhnev signed a SALT I treaty as the capstone of their first summit in 1972. Kissinger celebrated his 49th birthday in a chandeliered Kremlin conference room, where he was presented a cake in which aides and uncharacteristically cooperative KGB agents had pretended to hide a bulky microphone. "It was the only laugh in the whole ten-day visit," recalls Hyland. "There was no sense...