Word: mideast
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Holtzman visited the Mideast last December and January during what she called "the heady days right after Sadat's trip to Israel." She praised Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's "contagious optimism" and said she was "very heartened by the enthusiasm of the Egyptians...
Past dealings by the American government with the Mideast have been a history of repeated mistakes, Holtzman said. She added that the Carter administration has mistakenly been accepting the PLO as a legitimate voice of the Palestinians, but she found little support for the PLO anywhere in the Mideast...
...third, Fisher has been in touch with the State Department and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), suggesting possible ways to break the deadlock in the Mideast settlement...
Besides working on the Mideast problem, Fisher has been advising the present U.S. representatives to the International Conference on the Law of the Sea, and the present U.S. negotiators in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). Through letters and telephone calls he has been helping a group of Catholic and Protestant educators in Northern Ireland develop a history text presenting each side's interpretation of events in that nation...
Price says Nixon tries especially hard to stay on top of developments in superpower and Mideast relations, as well as domestic economic and energy issues. Nixon still occasionally speaks with unnamed national and international statesmen, the confidante reports, though "they're not coming to him for advise and counsel and that sort of thing. A lot of them are friends of his. They're just trying to maintain some personal contact," Price adds...