Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long as five or six days and not end until early this week. Before the conclave began, it was feared that considerable negotiating time would be lost as each leader observed his own Sabbath: Friday for Moslem Sadat, Saturday for Jewish Begin and Sunday for Christian Carter. But the weekend did not bring the talks to a standstill...
...three days, Vice President Mondale worked Capitol Hill, although he was bleary-eyed from the jet lag of his weekend trip to Rome for the installation of Pope John Paul I. He even sandwiched in an hour of phone calls between meeting Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin at Andrews Air Force Base. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger buttonholed Senators as they went in and out of the chamber. At one point, he chased Missouri Republican John Danforth up the stairs, then lost him in the maze of third-floor corridors...
CENTO was conceived as a mutual security pact, but at least two of its members, Iran and Pakistan, are undergoing paroxysms of mutual insecurity. Hence the decision of Pakistan's chief martial law administrator, General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, to visit Tehran for consultations with the Shah last weekend. "It promises to be a most melancholy conversation," commented an official of the Iranian imperial court...
...post-war dictatorships. This reign of terror has been materially underwritten by a supply of U.S. arms and military training--both because of America's economic interest in Iranian oil, and because Iran has been perceived as a solid anti-communist bulwark in the ideologically mercurial Middle East. (Last weekend, President Carter phoned the Shah to express support for his police crack-down...
Carter cancelled his appearance at the White House party, honoring stock car race drivers, to work on the compromise formula. Carter faces a weekend of speechmaking and politicking, but there is no sign that he is imposing a deadline to end his talks with the Mideast leaders...