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...travelers become better informed about the global problems that so deeply affect us all. Day after day, the group was able to question closely, and at length, a number of key figures who are trying to bring peace to their nations. Among the hosts of the traveling Americans: Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, King Hussein of Jordan, Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith and Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere...
...group also arrived in Israel at a particularly apt time-just as Premier Begin was returning from his contentious talks with Jimmy Carter. Still fatigued from his unfruitful trip, Begin summarized: "My first meeting with President Carter was wonderful; the second very useful; the third quite difficult...
...days earlier, Weizman had written to his Egyptian counterpart, War Minister Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, urging that the two meet to review the results of the recent and unsuccessful talks in Washington between Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and President Carter. Gamassy referred the proposal to Sadat, observing that he was not sure whether the Egyptians should meet with any Israeli officials while the Israeli armed forces were still in southern Lebanon. Sadat overruled the objection, noting that Weizman had emphasized in his letter that the Israelis were getting ready to pull out of Lebanon, and that that was good enough...
Giscard's final visitor was Premier Raymond Barre, who presented his resignation-a mere formality. At week's end Giscard reappointed Barre, confident that the Premier's austerity programs were the essential measures needed to hold back inflation. Austerity was not exactly what the leftist leaders had in mind, but then, Mitterrand, Marchais and the others know that Giscard's engagement at the Palace runs to 1981, while theirs were only one-day stands...
Although the contest features the two premier lightweight crews of the East, the Radcliffe squad is not physically peaking for the confrontation with its archrival...