Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while, U.S.-U.S.S.R. talks on the controversy continued. On Monday, Vance and Gromyko had met at the Soviet Mission to the U.N. Aides to the Secretary described the 70-min. session as dispiriting; Gromyko did not budge from the Kremlin's public position. Nor did he at a second meeting, which took place Thursday at Vance's New York hotel suite and lasted more than three hours...
...private meetings with U.S. Catholics, and especially during his session with the American Bishops' Conference in Chicago on Friday, the Pope intended to raise another of his major continuing concerns: the shortage of young men seeking to become priests. Aides said that he would make it clear, however, that he opposes trying to entice applicants by relaxing any traditional rules of the priesthood. In particular, he will not yield on the issue of celibacy...
...uncommonly revealing photographic session. Posing in the Rose Garden outside the Oval Office of the White House last week, President Carter and his guest, Mexican President José López Portillo, 59, flashed toothy smiles and made an awkward attempt to stand together arm in arm. But the transparent effort to present a buddy-buddy image tailed to camouflage the uneasy relations between the circumspect Carter and the blunt, ebullient Mexican. Their lack of rapport mirrors the testy state of affairs between the U.S. and its angry, increasingly influential neighbor to the south...
...Egyptian and Israeli representatives meanwhile met in Alexandria for a sixth-and noisy-round of talks on Palestinian autonomy. The opening session turned stormy when Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa Khalil pounded his fist on the table and barked that "good faith" had been "shattered" by the Israeli decision to allow its citizens to purchase land on the West Bank. Israeli Minister of the Interior Yosef Burg sarcastically retorted that the Egyptians were "using a big gun to shoot a small bird...
Last week Chrysler's voluble chairman, Lee Iacocca, took his corporate aid campaign on the road. In a session with TIME, Iacocca was characteristically outspoken. Excerpts...