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Peres accused Begin of making "highflying speeches" about the Syrian missile crisis, and criticized the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor because it jeopardized the Egyptian-Israeli peace process and put Egyptian President Anwar Sadat "in an impossible position." Begin replied that Sadat was still friendly toward him. As the campaign headed into this week's election, some polls showed Likud in the lead, 39% to 32%, but others called the race virtually even. Trying to pick up the large number of undecided votes, Peres offered the post of Defense Minister in his shadow cabinet to former Prime Minister...
...other Arab leaders closed ranks, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat found himself once again dangerously isolated because of his continuing support of the peace talks with Israel. So outraged was the Egyptian parliament by the raid that it might have demanded that the entire Egyptian-Israeli dialogue be reconsidered if Sadat aides had not intervened to cool off the members of his own party. Egyptian officials, moreover, expressed concern that the U.S.'s own credibility in the Middle East was at stake and urged Washington to take a decisive stand for the sake of its interests...
...comeback. Time also devoted a number of cover stories to the search for peace in the Middle East, including Prime Minister Golda Meir's last-minute steps to avert full scale war in 1969 and the momentus summit between Isreal's Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat in 1977. Only 5 weeks ago a TIME cover story examined Isreal today and its economic and political future. This week Begin's "defensive" strike against Iraq is the subject of yet another cover story...
...Arab with a particular right to feel outraged was Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who was "totally astonished" by the news of the raid. Well he might have been; Sadat had held a highly publicized summit meeting with Begin in the Sinai only three days before the raid, and received no hint that trouble might lie ahead...
...fact, a meeting that was called not so much to work out major agreements as to satisfy the needs of each of the celebrated participants. Under a blazing Sinai sun and a deep azure sky, Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat met last week for their tenth summit since Sadat made his ice-breaking visit to Jerusalem...