Word: waked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real horror was to be sleeping soundly about three-thirty or four or five o'clock in the morning and have the telephone ring and the operator say, 'Sorry to wake you, Mr. President,' and there's just a second until she could get Mr. Rostow in the Situation Room, or Mr. Bundy . . . Had we hit a Russian ship? Had an accident occurred? We have another Pueblo? Someone made a mistake-were we at war?" Few men, listening, could be so sure of themselves, or so hungry for power, that they would not feel a sickening...
Coolness to Israel. What started the furor was the disclosure of an eleven-point U.S. plan for peace between Israel and Jordan. The proposals were worked up for submission to the Big Four-the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain and France-in the wake of the suspension of talks on the Middle East between Washington and Moscow. Though Rogers and several other State Department officials spent 2½ hours in Washington conferring with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban only 30 hours before the plan was submitted to the other members of the Big Four, they made no mention of what...