Word: summits
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After listening to Begin, Administration aides had to rethink the kind of Geneva Conference that could be held. Before the Washington summit. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had drawn up alternatives that were described at the White House as "Geneva Up" and "Geneva Down." Geneva Up would be a conference at which the parties would go in with the procedural details worked out in advance and a relatively clear idea of the substantive matters to be discussed. At a Geneva Down conference, even the procedural issues-who should attend and how to approach the substantive issues-would have...
Carter ended the summit with an open invitation to Begin to "call any time, any day." The next step in getting the parties to Geneva is up to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. He will start a ten-day trip to the Middle East on Aug. 1, stopping in five Arab states before visiting Begin and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan in Jerusalem. Vance's aides are worried about what kind of reception he will get in the Arab world. Said one U.S. official: "The problem with all this is how the Arabs will feel about it. Frankly, I think...
...world to which the U.S. currently allots more money, more aid and more concern than any other, regardless of size. If the Israeli Premier's meeting this week with President Carter could be held before an audience, the event would be S.R.O. For at stake in this summit meeting is not only the future of the unique relationship between Israel and the U.S., but the prospects for any major progress toward a Middle East settlement...
Soviet Intervention. Back at Libreville, what was notably missing from the OAU summit was the customary volume of anti-West rhetoric. In a stunning departure from tradition, Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry, whose country used to be a Moscow ally, attacked Soviet intervention in Africa. He thundered: "Socialist imperialism will only turn the African continent into a vast arena of conflict. We do not want to replace one imperialism with another imperialism." An Egyptian delegate agreed, warning that "the only issue that really matters here is that of Soviet interference in Africa." The conference subsequently adopted a Senegal-proposed resolution that...
...host nation, the OAU summit offered a rare opportunity to star briefly on the world's political stage. Gabon-a onetime French colony of only 600,000 inhabitants that is richly endowed with oil, manganese and uranium deposits-put on a dazzling performance for its guests. Arriving delegates were met at Libreville's tiny airport by fleets of Mercedes, Cadillacs and Rolls-Royces and escorted to the conference center by siren-screaming motorcycles. Along the route, thousands of women -draped with cloths emblazoned with the portrait of President Bongo-sang and swayed rhythmically to native drums. Exclaimed...