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...stage of the battle with Israel has begun," Egypt's President Anwar Sadat told university professors in Cairo last week. Sadat, preparing to leave on his second trip to the Soviet Union since he became President a year ago, wanted to remind the world that Egypt had friends in Moscow who would help him keep the stage very well heated indeed...
...Gurion does not believe that peace will result from superpower maneuvers or from any effort by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, whom he does not trust. Rather, he told Levin, it will emerge because of the new generation in Egypt. "There are many Egyptian youths who have finished university. There are some among them who care for their people. There will be peace because they understand what Nasser understood in the last year of his life-that the main problem of Egypt is not how to destroy Israel but how to improve the condition of its own peasants...
After three days in Cairo last week consulting on Middle East peace with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home sounded an optimistic note. Douglas-Home, who had taken time out to don Arab robes and ride a camel while visiting the pyramids at Giza, reported that his hosts were "in a mood for permanent peace." Sir Alec had hardly spoken, however, when Egypt and Israel started shooting at each other in the most serious exchange since a fragile cease-fire was arranged along the Suez Canal 13 months...
Anticoup Insurance. The federation will have one aspect useful to all concerned. Its constitution provides that any two of the states can intervene militarily to maintain the status quo in the third. That at least gives anticoup insurance to the regimes of Gaddafi, Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad. In effect the federation is a union of leaders rather than of people...
...That is true, but we don't want to be served a new date every so often. What did [Egypt's President Anwar] Sadat do? He destroyed every constructive element in this proposition. First, he proposed that the Egyptian armed forces cross the canal immediately. Secondly, he gave us a cease-fire for six months. And during these six months he will clear the canal. During the six months, according to his recipe, [United Nations Mediator Gunnar] Jarring has to work out a timetable for our moving back up to the international border...