Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sectary has not been consulting the Israeli leaders. Stated Naftali Lavie, Foreign Minister Dayan's spokesman: "We are totally in the dark." In his talks with Vance Premier Menachem Begin will probably balk at negotiating any substantive issues of a potential peace settlement. As he did during his summit with Carter last month Begin will focus on procedural points insisting that substantive points are better solved at a conference with the Arab states...
...piloted on a CIA mission was shot down inside the Soviet Union; in a helicopter crash while on a reporting assignment for KNBC-TV, Los Angeles; in Encino, Calif. His capture, along with that of his photographic and electronic surveillance equipment, caused Nikita Khrushchev to cancel a summit conference with President Eisenhower. Tried publicly in Moscow, Powers was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for espionage, then released in 1962 in exchange for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel...
...sided, as a threat to their military security and as a violation of the established mode of U.S.-Soviet diplomacy. It was a mistake for Vance to spring a sharp revision of the weapons ceilings, which had been approved by Ford and Brezhnev at the 1974 Vladivostok summit, on Soviet leaders whose basic conservatism and advancing age (Politburo average: 67) make them unable to respond quickly to changes. Carter and Vance also gave the press details of the new proposals; the Soviet leaders are accustomed to the kind of confidential diplomacy skillfully practiced by Henry Kissinger, and they especially resent...
...excellent start with its allies. Within days of the Inauguration, Vice President Walter Mondale was visiting West European and Japanese leaders, assuring them that Washington would weigh their opinions when formulating policy; a few months later, Carter was charming and impressing fellow heads of government at the London summit. The allies have also been heartened by Washington's pledge to bolster NATO's conventional forces, and they generally favor Carter's rather relaxed, flexible approach to Eurocommunism. Now many allied governments are troubled by Carter. European Community leaders have sent him a message warning that he may be seriously endangering...
...complexity of East-West power games around the Horn of Africa, relations between Cairo and Tripoli remained tense last week, even though the shooting had stopped. At the urging of Arab peacemakers, in particular Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, both sides agreed to a mini-summit to settle the miniwar. There was no certainty that either Sadat or Gaddafi-who was mysteriously out of public view during the fighting -would attend. The mood was surly, particularly since losses appeared to have been high for so brief...