President Carter gave the broadcast media much credit Sunday for the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Speaking to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters here, Carter said he wondered if the people of Israel and Egypt would have been as ready to accept peace with each other “if they had not been able to see each other’s faces on television or hear each other’s voices on radio.”
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