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...been a bumpy road to peace, and a few more jolts could lie ahead. Only a week earlier, the whole mood of negotiations darkened when Israel announced that it would expand the size of five Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. That decision had given Egyptian President Anwar Sadat a strong excuse for pulling out of the negotiations if he had wanted to do so. Obviously he did not, even though Begin continued to talk defiantly, even provocatively, about Israel's goals. Accepting this year's Family of Man award from the New York Council of Churches...
Even as the negotiations for a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel appeared to flounder in Washington, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee last week announced in Oslo that this year's award would go jointly to Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin. Few Western observers would quarrel with the selection of Sadat, whose courageous mission to Jerusalem last November had set the stage for the tumultuous peace drive that followed. But in its attempt at even-handedness in naming Begin to share the honor and the $173,700 in prize money, the committee (see box) made...
From the narrowest of political perspectives, that was probably true. But, while Washington fumed, Anwar Sadat was playing it fairly cool publicly. Though he had pressed the Carter Administration to do everything it could to help him secure the open support of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Sadat chose to interpret the latest dispute as mainly an argument between Washington and Jerusalem over the timing of the Saunders mission. He was not anxious to break off negotiations, as he had done during the talks in Jerusalem last January. But on Friday the Egyptian government announced it would call...
...process of choosing Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, the Nobel Committee scrutinized 50 nominees, including Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, Finnish President Urho Kekkonen, and the beleaguered committee of Soviet dissidents who have monitored the 1975 Helsinki human rights accords. The selection committee, chosen - at Nobel's behest - by the Norwegian parliament, cloaks its deliberations in se crecy but draws on a wide range of sources for nominees. Among those consulted: representatives of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, officials of various governments, scholars and previous Peace Prize laureates. Sadat, says Nobel Institute Director Jacob Sverdrup, received "between ten and 20" nominations...
...NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Committee's honoring of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was at best premature, and at worst an admission of the shallowness of the award itself. Though both heads of state should be commended for their long-awaited search for peace, the negotiated Camp David framework still leaves the future stability of the Middle East uncertain. There is no doubt that in taking the peace initiative and in alienating himself from the rest of the Arab community, Sadat took a courageous step. Similarly, Begin's receptiveness deserves recognition. But the Nobel Peace Prize...