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Although former President Jimmy Carter makes no claims for himself in his account of the Camp David episode [Oct. 11], it is clear that the accord was the work of a gifted and completely dedicated man. He was treated shabbily by his countrymen, especially by those of his own party. History will deal more kindly and fairly with Jimmy Carter than his contemporaries have...
...roundup began only one day after Gemayel had reappointed Chafik al Wazzan, 57, a soft-spoken Muslim lawyer, as Prime Minister. In accordance with an unwritten 1943 accord, the President is always a Maronite Christian and the Prime Minister is a Sunni Muslim. Even so, Wazzan's appointment was a reassuring sign to Lebanon's Muslims, including the Palestinians, who are wary of Christian rule. During the siege of Beirut, Wazzan earned the admiration of his fellow Muslims for his defiance of the Israelis...
...could think of no way to make further progress. My only decision was that all of us should work to leave Camp David in as positive a mood as possible, taking credit for what we had done, and I resolved to continue our common search for an elusive accord...
...that the Israeli settlements on Egyptian soil were a necessary buffer between Gaza and Egypt. He next addressed the issue of a separate agreement with Egypt, to the exclusion of the Palestinians, Jordanians and Syrians. Begin believed that an agreement on the Sinai might come first, with a later accord on "Judea and Samaria." (Begin always referred to the West Bank by the biblical names, I assume to engender the notion that this was the promised land that God himself had given the Jews.) He was not asking for such a procedure now, he said, because it might embarrass Egypt...
After much haggling over just what kind of agreements should even be sought at Camp David, the three principals eventually decided to try to reach accord on two separate documents. One, to be called "The Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty Between Egypt and Israel," would deal primarily with ending the recurrent wars between the two nations, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from land in the Sinai seized in the 1973 war, recognition by Egypt of Israel's right to exist and the status of Israeli settlements in the desert. The second, "The Framework for Peace...