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...first of the principals to arrive at Camp David, 67 miles northwest of Washington, was Carter. Tuesday, while he and Rosalynn made a last-minute inspection of the "cottages" in which Sadat and Begin were to stay, Vice President Walter Mondale and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance headed for Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. They were waiting on the tarmac when the Egyptair Boeing 707 touched down, bringing Sadat from Paris, where he had dropped off his wife Jihan and his two-year-old grandson Sherif Marei, who was to receive medical treatment. At Andrews, Sadat praised Carter...
Earlier Wednesday. Somoza sent troops to northwest Nicaragua to dislodge rebels dug in at three key cities in a fight to control this Central American nation...
Government sources said troops, tired from five days of battling rebels in Masaya and other cities, were moving toward Leon, Cinadega and other major cities in Nicaragua's most populous northwest sector...
...would be hard to imagine a conference site more remote from the tensions of the Middle East than Camp David, a 143-acre aerie perched atop a 1,880-ft. hill in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain, 75 miles northwest of the capital. Franklin Roosevelt was so fond of sneaking off to his hideaway that he called it Shangri-La. There he and Winston Churchill planned Dday. Dwight Eisenhower changed the name of the retreat to that of his grandson David, and the new name later became synonymous with a thawing of the cold war. "The spirit of Camp David" derived...
Harvard Square Theater--Friday, North by Northwest, 12, 4, 8, The Thin Man, 2:20, 6:20, 10:20. Saturday, Sunday, Coming Home, 3:35, 7:55, Network, 1:30, 5:45, 10. Friday and Saturday midnight show, The Story...