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...also on the questions his European colleagues would be raising about the U.S. position on Arab-Israeli peace negotiations. Once the London talks were finished, Carter planned to do some direct Middle East business on the way home. In Geneva, he was due to meet Syrian President Hafez Assad, fresh from five days of talks in Moscow with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, another fellow who is anxious to play an important role in the Arab-Israeli peace negotiations...
...Assad will be the fourth Middle East leader Carter has met in his presidential crash course on the intricacies of Arab-Israeli diplomacy. His tutorial started out in March on a positive note. Israel's then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was hopeful, although he and Carter never established any kind of personal rapport. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, on the other hand, was personable and positively ebullient about peace prospects. Meanwhile, the news reaching Washington about the Assad-Brezhnev talks was upbeat: the Soviets seemed eager to resume a leadership role at comprehensive peace talks in Geneva-a role that...
...Anwar Sadat had never met before, so they boned up on each other before the Egyptian President arrived in Washington last week. Sadat, the first in a series of Arab leaders whom Carter will meet this spring (next: Jordan's King Hussein and Syria's President Hafez Assad), had wondered, for example, whether Carter's commitment to Christianity obtruded on his views of the Middle East (Answer: no). Carter had commented to an aide that from his reading Sadat appeared to be "a fascinating character." One foreign policy aide gave Carter a short lecture on the importance...
...been busily building up his position as the Arab world's primary peacemaker. He has told dozens of visiting U.S. Congressmen: "I am not preparing for war, I am preoccupied with peace." With the support of the Saudis, he healed a rift with Syria's President Hafez Assad that had been caused by the Syrian incursion into Lebanon last May. Prior to the summit meeting of Arab and African leaders in Cairo last month, he got Jordan's King Hussein to agree to federation with a still-to-be-formed Palestinian state. This week in Washington...
...Marshal and President for Life Idi Amin Dada, who at times appeared in full-dress uniform with row upon row of decorations covering his awesome chest. Throughout the conference he was ignored as much as possible, but Big Daddy got his revenge. Just as Syria's President Hafez Assad was taking the rostrum to speak, Amin temporarily stole the show by speeding off, amid motorcycle sirens, to give a rambling and often incoherent press conference at which he declared, in case anybody was wondering, that he was not on the CIA payroll...