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...Watergate drama in Washington could not, of course, completely obscure the principal actors elsewhere on the world stage. Three were particularly notable for their roles during 1973. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat skillfully courted alliances among Arab leaders, then launched the coordinated Yom Kippur attack by his armies and those of Syria on Israeli-occupied territories. Although the strike was ultimately unsuccessful, the fact that the invading armies were not instantly crushed by the Israelis restored a measure of Arab pride that may help make a Middle East settlement possible. Saudi Arabia's King Feisal responded to the urgings...
Some Arab and Western leaders conclude that the terrorists were trying both to sabotage the Geneva conference and to embarrass the Arab "establishment," which includes Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Jordan's King Hussein. The latest hijacking was one of several that have coincided lately with international meetings among Arab government leaders and others who might find a formula for peace. On the opening day of the Conference of Non-Aligned Nations in Algiers last September, Black September gunmen attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy in Paris, took Saudi hostages, and finally surrendered in Kuwait...
Kissinger, in the week leading to Geneva, continued a whirlwind Middle East search for conciliation that left even his Arab hosts breathless. From conferences in Cairo with President Anwar Sadat, Kissinger flew on to Saudi Arabia for his second meeting in five weeks with King Feisal on the question of Arab oil for the U.S. From there his blue and white jet flew on to Damascus for the first visit in two decades of a U.S. Secretary of State to Syria. Kissinger had a cordial meeting with President Hafez Assad, but their conversations ended in a diplomatic impasse. Assad refused...
Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Syria's President Hafez Assad met in Cairo early in the week to discuss joint strategy for Geneva. Egypt had already affirmed that it would attend the conference, but with "vigilance and with continued mobilization." Egypt was not prepared, warned Deputy Premier Mohamed Abdel Kader Hatem, to live once again with a no-peace-no-war stalemate. It would insist on Israeli withdrawal and on recognition of "the rights of the Palestinians." The Syrians have threatened to boycott the conference unless the Israelis withdraw from the Arab territory they have occupied since...
Perhaps the most enthusiastic sponsor of the conference is Egypt's Anwar Sadat. One of his advisers, alluding to the Egyptian military crossing of the Suez Canal in October, last week referred to Sadat's decision to begin peace negotiations as "the political crossing." Most participants assume that the conference can accomplish little until after the Israeli elections on Dec. 31. The Egyptians reckon that Sadat will then have about six weeks in which to get some results from the conference. If he fails, Sadat seems prepared to resume the fighting, though without much enthusiasm and probably without...