Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Realizing that the negotiations were at the brink of collapse-"in deep crisis," as Begin put it-the two leaders met somberly at the White House. For two hours last Thursday, three more Friday and in an after-dinner session Saturday, surrounded by maps and documents, they shut themselves up in the Oval Office and argued their differences. Neither side, according to insiders, gave an inch. On the key issue of whether or how to tie the Israeli-Egyptian agreement to a grant of autonomy for the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza, there was no sign of compromise...
...whom Menachem Begin refused to meet last week, Egypt's Premier Moustafa Khalil, guards his privacy so carefully that he is not even listed in Who's Who in Egypt, but he most certainly does have the authority to negotiate for Egypt with Begin or anyone else. He enjoys not only the support of President Sadat but also considerable respect among both conservatives and liberals in Egypt...
...trusts himself. Sadat is visionary and mercurial; Khalil is cautious and dispassionate. Sadat relies on Khalil to weigh and analyze every Israeli proposal more carefully than Sadat himself might. As one Egyptian official put it, "Khalil would not rise and fall like the snake under the spell of Begin's music." If that music led to an actual treaty, of course, Sadat could hardly resist flying in to sign it -and Khalil would cheerfully stand on the sidelines and watch...
...that the operation "will be limited in degree and will not last a long time," perhaps no longer than China's four-week invasion of India in 1962. There were reports at week's end, in fact, that the Chinese were considering a cease-fire and might begin pulling back this week...
...with 22 hours of prime-time programming each week, it also occurred to them that the real effort had to come from their big brother in Manhattan. If a network is doing well, its affiliates also do well. If it is not, station owners become dyspeptic and surly and begin looking around for a bigger and better brother...