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...Middle East. In an article for the current issue of Foreign Policy magazine, Sheehan praises Kissinger as having been "at the apogee of his skill" during those negotiations (TIME, March 15). The article quotes directly from the dialogue of Kissinger's conversations with such leaders as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli former Premier Golda Meir and Syrian President Hafez Assad...
...warned President Ford they were "strenuously opposed" to the deal, and that any further sales to Cairo might alienate Jewish voters. The Administration, which anticipated the "calculated outrage" of the Jewish community, argues that the sale helps Cairo preserve its independence from the Soviets. It also enables Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to demonstrate to his radical critics that his willingness to make some accommodation with Jerusalem can pay dividends. This is in Israel's interest as much as in America...
...Middle East, following last year's Sinai disengagement between Egypt and Israel, there appear to be no new options for solving the more dangerous problems of the Golan Heights and the Palestinians. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat gave new fuel to Kissinger's critics last week by revealing that the Secretary had made a number of secret agreements as part of the Sinai negotiations. One agreement pledges the U.S. to prevent Israel from attacking Syria; another binds the U.S. to bring the Palestinians into negotiations...
...Pair of Foxes: "Kissinger was touched at once by [Egyptian President Anwar] Sadat's urbanity and charm [during their first meeting in 1973]; Sadat liked Kissinger's incisiveness, so refreshing after the naivete of [U.S. Secretary of State William] Rogers. However, the reports of their instant romance (soon to be dramatized by their public kissing) have been exaggerated. Essentially we glimpse a pair of foxes exchanging oaths of confidence, each of them intent on wielding the other for his own purpose...
These conversations contain some of the controversial assurances to Arab leaders that contradict official U.S. policy toward the Middle East. In one quoted talk, Ford told Egyptian president Anwar Sadat that the U.S. supports a return to pre-1967 war borders in the disputed Israeli-occupied territories...