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...keep some civilian installations there for a limited period. We are ready to restore your sovereignty over all of Sinai and to put our settlements in the Rafah area under your flag. We suggest small Israeli civilian settlements [in Sinai] instead of army installations. The buffer zone between the two armies in Sinai should be enlarged so that there will be no chance of a future confrontation...
...Beyond that, it now seems clear that, when they finally met, Begin and Sadat neither liked nor understood each other. Right from the beginning the misunderstandings were apparent. Sadat, for example, said in Jerusalem that the last Israeli settlement in the Sinai should determine the Israeli border of the buffer zone. The Begin government interpreted this, or chose to interpret it, as a green light to expand the Sinai settlements before a peace agreement had been concluded. When the Israelis began leveling land for enlarging the settlements last January, Sadat became furious at what he considered bad faith on Begin...
Andrew Young has been a useful buffer for the Democrats, enabling them to divert minority criticism. It is, however, a luxury we should no longer tolerate. We need professionals in Government, not babbling dolts who forget that they are the spokesmen for the nation...
...about as quiet, orderly and predictable as a sailors' bar on Saturday night. Crop failures sent world prices soaring to 65¢¢ per Ib. in 1974, and overproduction has made them plunge to about 8¢. Late last year the Administration signed the International Sugar Agreement, which would use buffer stocks and export restraints to keep prices between 15¢ and 19¢ per Ib. But the ISA deal must be ratified by the Senate; and Church, who represents a big beet-grower constituency, has kept the agreement bottled up in the Foreign Economic Policy Subcommittee, of which he is chairman. He plans...
Gibson is the staff assistant to Archie C. Epps III, dean of students. Tucked in an office of her own on the first floor of University Hall, Gibson serves as a buffer between Epps and the hordes of undergraduates clamoring at his door, and she solves many of their problems on her own. Her biggest difficulty, in fact, is often no in devising solutions but in convincing the students their woes are not as severe as they think...