Monthly Archives: August 2017

During the Camp David talks in September 1978, in which President Carter mediated between Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, eventually achieving a peace treaty between the two sides, the only other news coming across the news wires was about “riots’ in Iran in several cities against the Shah’s regime. Although we were aware of anti-Shah sentiment in Iran, I don’t think we in the press corps took it too seriously. But Vance, in his memoirs,…..

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