Word: talked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish Jimmy Carter could have read your story on leadership [Aug. 6] aloud on his Sunday TV talk after returning from the mountain, instead of giving us that "peanut butter and jelly" saga...
What makes it so difficult for the U.S. to talk to the P.L.O. is a 1975 promise that Washington made to Israel not to "recognize or negotiate" with that Palestinian organization until it accepts Israel's right to exist and Resolution 242. Although more than 100 nations recognize the P.L.O. as the legitimate political arm of the Palestinians, the Israelis adamantly condemn it as a terrorist force dedicated to the destruction of Israel...
...residence and watched Young arrive. What went on inside the town house, said the American source, was picked up by clandestine Israeli recording devices that had been planted some time before. (A senior Israeli source gave a slightly different version, saying that Israel obtained details of the Young-Terzi talk not from inside the town house but by intercepting P.L.O. communications.) When asked if he thought that his meeting with Terzi had been bugged, Young replied: "I have no way of knowing, nor do I care...
That was exactly what Young already intended to do. During his 90-minute talk with Carter in the Executive Mansion's family quarters, the ambassador offered to resign. Young later hinted that he might have been able to keep his job if "I could promise that I wouldn't continue creating incidents. But I can't promise that." But some White House aides quibble with Young's recollection; they say that the President did not give his errant ambassador any real alternative to resignation...
...their legislators did so out of special concerns, like seeking help to untangle some federal red tape. Yet also apparent was a more general worry about inflation and energy and the ability of Congress and the Carter Administration to deal with the two problems. There was not much talk about Carter or his recent actions. Ordinary problems were what worried ordinary people. The range of complaints and criticisms was illustrated by the travels and travails of a sampling of legislators...