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...confidence was based on Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's latest diplomatic foray into the Middle East. The participants were well informed. They knew that another Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai seemed in the making, in exchange for a declaration of nonbelligerency in some form from Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Yet the group was uneasy. Asked a woman: "But what will Sadat's successor do? Will he honor an agreement?" Replied Bookbinder: "Perfidy is always possible, but we cannot live on the basis that an adversary may not live up to an agreement...
Blunt and Frank. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, who traveled with Kissinger, reports that the Secretary not only displayed his customary "constructive ambiguity" during the Middle East talks, but also was direct, open and on occasion harshly frank in two capitals he visited. In Cairo, Kissinger acknowledged President Anwar Sadat's argument that Egypt could not pledge Israel nonbelligerency so long as the Sinai remained occupied. In reply, the Secretary pointed out that Israel tacitly accepts Egyptian sovereignty over the Sinai, that Jerusalem regards all occupied territories as negotiable-but that there was a political price...
...Israel's basic diplomatic strategy was that it would only give "a piece of land for a piece of peace," and thus it would not surrender any more of the Sinai (see map following page) without getting clear-cut assurances of Egypt's peaceful intentions from President Anwar Sadat...
...step-by-step approach. Foreshadowing Kissinger's visit, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko concluded a Middle East tour of his own to press the Russian preference-a return to Geneva. Syrian President Hafez Assad, the most unbending leader of the Arab confrontation powers, supports that preference. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat still has hopes that Kissinger can achieve further progress; nonetheless, the joint Egyptian-Soviet communiqué issued after Gromyko's visit reflected Sadat's desire for eventual resumption of the Geneva conference. Even members of Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government, which long worried about...
Soviet Role. The Israelis and Arabs tried quickly to knock down dangerous conjectures about trouble ahead. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who wound up his first official call on France's President Valery Giscard d'Estaing with a sizable order for French armaments, insisted that "for the first time in 26 years, peace is possible." Israel's leaders reaffirmed their intention of ceding large chunks of Sinai in return for guarantees of nonaggression...