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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the other Arab states that must be nudged along if a meaningful peace treaty is to be signed. The Administration was also concerned that Israel might not offer enough in return, or that Sadat would jeopardize an over-all Middle East peace by signing a separate Egyptian-Israeli accord...
...chronicler of pre-Communist China's lower classes who is best known in the West for his 1936 novel Rickshaw Boy. During the Cultural Revolution, Lao came under ferocious attack by the fanatical Red Guards. After a dutiful attempt to write proletarian poetry in accord with the party line of that chaotic period, Lao She told his wife he was leaving home in search of "a peaceful place." He walked to the nearby T'ai-p'ing (Great Peace) Lake in Peking, where he drowned himself at the age of 67. Subsequently, all of his novels, plays...
...minefields in Sinai, stepped up military maneuvers across the Suez Canal, and carried out major exercises with the Russian-made SAM7 Strella missiles. In Washington, U.S. intelligence officials discounted the maneuver reports as "nothing new," and insisted that there had been no serious violations of the second Sinai accord reported by United Nations observers in the area...
...Jerusalem as its capital (even the U.S. maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv). Attempting to blunt such criticism in advance of his trip, Sadat last week flew to Damascus to confer with Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has been somewhat suspicious of his Arab brother since the second Sinai accord of 1975, through which Egypt regained the Abu Rudeis oilfields...
...sudden, becomes irrelevant?and perhaps even a procedural obstacle to progress in the Middle East. Despite Sadat's solemn promise to other Arab leaders that he will not negotiate a separate peace with Israel, he and Begin will almost certainly explore the possibility of a third accord that would restore more of Sinai to Egyptian control. For his part, Begin made...