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...under way and for after five-year transition period to follow. The status of settlements after that Egypt, be determined by the negotiating parties - Israel, Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinians. The discussions are "very carefully recorded" by Carter himself, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Israeli Legal Adviser Aharon Barak...
...accepts as a way to establish "a good atmosphere" for the upcoming Sinai negotiations. The Israelis, however, insist that the agreement refers only to civilian and not to military (nahal) settlements. During the final four-hour 25-minute discussion at Aspen Lodge, which was attended by Carter, Begin, Vance, Barak and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, Barak is the only notetaker...
WEDNESDAY. Carter takes a new tack. Ignoring protocol, he deals not with leaders but with their aides to work out technical details. Key aides: Egyptian Under Secretary of State Osama el-Baz and former Israeli Attorney General Aharon Barak. Carter keeps aides in session 10½ hours, sending out for tea and sandwiches. Begin walks in woods with Wife Aliza. Sadat too goes strolling again...
Carter surprised in talks with aides. He finds elBaz, aide to moderate Sadat, unexpectedly technical and difficult. Barak, aide to rigid Begin, seems reasonable and flexible. "Barak was the unsung hero of the entire summit," one U.S. official says. "There would have been no agreement without him. He refused to accept the idea that a particular problem just wasn't solvable...
...patio, ponder some way to bridge the West Bank gulf. They devise ingenious two-track solution: let Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Palestinians negotiate at one level over final status of West Bank; let Israel and Jordan also seek a peace treaty at same time, with Palestinian participation. Israel's Barak is shown this U.S. proposal. "This is much better," he says. "I think we're getting somewhere." But Sadat tells Carter he still wants Palestinians to have right to select their own form of government and something must be done about Jerusalem. Carter sees Begin for four hours after...