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...improved the chances of a peaceful transfer of power in Southwest Africa (Namibia). By successfully pushing for the Panama Canal treaties, Carter accomplished something that four previous Administrations had postponed. In the Middle East, the most dramatic moves have been made not by the U.S. but by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. However, Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance have carefully strengthened the U.S. role as an honest broker to whom both Israel and moderate Arab states can turn...
Dayan assured Vance that Israel was willing to participate in another round of talks. But there was some doubt whether Egypt would go along. Returning to Cairo from the Organization of African Unity summit in Khartoum (see following story), Egyptian President Anwar Sadat declared that for a new meeting to be held, "there should be some new elements from Israel...
...Menachem Begin's finest hour. During a rowdy session of the Knesset that was televised nationally last week, Israel's Premier lost his temper in a debate with Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres about Peres' talks with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Vienna, came close to weeping, and tore up pieces of paper. At a closed session of Labor delegates, even former Premier Golda Meir wondered aloud whether Begin had lost his senses. Meanwhile, a new "denial unit" in Begin's office, created to offset critical press stories about him, was working full time to explain...
...Principles signed by Nixon and Brezhnev. This committed the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to prevent situations "capable of causing a dangerous exacerbation of their relations" and "which would serve to increase international tensions." Moscow has ignored that pledge by its military intervention in Ethiopia, persistent attempts to derail Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's Middle East peace initiative, and efforts to discredit the Anglo-American formula for the peaceful transfer of power to the black majority in southern Africa...
Officials in Cairo insisted that the trip was being extended merely for a little vacation in the Alps. Some vacation. Flying into Vienna for a brief visit that started with a weekend gathering of the Socialist International, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat met twice last week with Israeli Opposition Leader Shimon Peres; the talks had been arranged by their host, Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. After retiring to a 16th century resort hotel outside Salzburg, Sadat then conferred with U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who just happened to be vacationing nearby at his summer home on the Attersee. Abruptly canceling...