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...success with Congress in months, and it is likely to be supplemented this week if, barring last-minute hitches, the Senate approves Kissinger's Sinai agreement. Yet even here the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asserted itself by ignoring Kissinger's pleas and releasing classified documents of the accord (see THE WORLD). The crisis between Congress and the White House over who conducts foreign policy is far from over...
...resupply Israel or counter Soviet intervention in the event of another Middle East war, and its nuclear submarine base at Rota. These installations, argue American officials, will also give Washington leverage in influencing Spain's transition to the post-Franco era. For Spain, the accord means about $750 million in military and economic aid, plus what Madrid sees as the implication of acceptance that goes with a military arrangement with...
...with nuclear warheads. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger was also disturbed by the Kissinger understanding. The Pentagon insisted that it had had no warning that Kissinger would commit the U.S. to Pershings for Israel until the Secretary returned home with the Sinai agreement two months ago. As part of the accord, Kissinger had pledged the U.S. to "an early meeting to undertake a joint study of high technology and sophisticated items, including the Pershing ground-to-ground missile with conventional warheads...
Apart from the Pershing obstacle, the Secretary of State's Sinai accord was all but certain of swift approval after a final congressional roadblock was removed last week. Following meetings with Kissinger, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee released official texts of the agreements the Secretary had worked out with Israel and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. The release contained no surprises: the various protocols promising military, economic or diplomatic support to each side had all been leaked earlier. The reason that Kissinger had not wanted them published was to preserve the principle of confidentiality in international negotiations. On the strength...
Those Pershings. As scheduled, Israeli and Egyptian representatives at Geneva's Palais des Nations put their pens to the interim Sinai accord. Also as expected, the Israelis only initialed the documents, withholding full signatures-and full binding agreement to the Sinai package-until an Administration proposal to station up to 200 technicians at monitoring posts around the Mitla and Giddi passes is approved by Congress. Nevertheless, some uneasiness continued to surface on Capitol Hill about parts of the Administration's Sinai deal. The main focus is the private Kissinger assurance to the Israelis that they will...