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...withdrawal of Israeli troops from Arab territories occupied in the 1967 war. Israel's commitment is to withdraw behind whatever "permanent, secure and recognized boundaries are agreed upon, but the Arabs want Israel to withdraw from all occupied territory before any other issue is settled. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat says that he will not extend the cease-fire next month unless Israel produces a withdrawal timetable or unless Jarring achieves notable progress toward one. Israel wants the cease fire to continue as long as the talks go on, and will not withdraw until all matters are settled...
...latest round of Middle East peace talks got under way. Egypt's Anwar Sadat journeyed to the dusty Nile delta town of Tanta to address his first mass rally since becoming President three months ago. The 12,000 Tantans responded as if the late Gamal Abdel Nasser himself were speaking. "There will be no compromise," said Sadat, "and we will not give up one inch of our land. The battle will extend to our farms, our factories, in the towns, cities and on the streets." Then he demanded: "Are you really fed up? Are you really tired of fighting...
Both sides sensed that the final showdown was at hand. "The next six months," said Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, "will be decisive in our destiny." Some Israelis fear that a misstep could mean the end of the Jewish nation. Despite such qualms, Israeli Premier Golda Meir's Cabinet last week agreed to return to peace negotiations with Egypt and Jordan, and the Knesset endorsed the decision by a 77-27 vote. The nays came from representatives of right-wing parties...
Eban was referring to a statement by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat demanding "a timetable for withdrawal." But diplomats in Cairo considered Sadat's statement, made during a visit to troops along the canal, to be more a matter of morale building than a real condition for the talks. More and more, Sadat's policy is emerging as an extension of Nasser's. In Cairo's daily Al Ahram last week, Editor Hassanein Heikal, a Nasser confidant, wrote that Egypt's former President had become convinced before his death that a military solution of the Middle...
...reason is that Egypt's Russian-designed missile network is now strong enough to guard against any new Israeli incursions into Egyptian airspace. The real reason for the pullback, say some intelligence sources, is that the Kremlin is worried about the viability of the new government of President Anwar Sadat and is taking steps to protect it-and also to protect Moscow's massive investment in Egypt...