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...seems Egypt was a popular place to spend the winter recess. Though Ted Tsomides '82 who spent his vacation there with the men's crew squad reported that "not too many people spend their Christmas in Cairo," much of the Harvard community was in Egypt...
...Egyptian President Anwar Sadat misled into signing the 1978 Camp David accords? Writing in the winter issue of Foreign Policy, Hermann Eilts, former U.S. Ambassador to Cairo and a participant in the Camp David summit, contends that Sadat set aside some of his misgivings partly because of two assurances he received from President Carter, neither of which was fulfilled. One was that the U.S. could "deliver" Saudi support for the agreement. Contends Eilts: "Carter believed-on what basis is unclear-that anything the Egyptians accepted other Arabs would have to accept." A few days before Camp David, Middle East experts...
Urging the U.S. to increase its own military presence in the region, Begin indicated that he could welcome temporary U.S. "facilities" in Israel and possibly even in Saudi Arabia or Egypt. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has made a similar offer. Near Cairo last week, U.S. and Egyptian air and ground forces held a series of joint maneuvers called Operation Bright Star. The 1,400 Americans, the first members of the new Rapid Deployment Force to venture to the Middle East, were meant to familiarize themselves with fighting and flying in the desert. Said one U.S. officer: "We've found...
Even as Begin was en route to New York, U.S. Ambassador James Leonard, deputy to Carter's special Middle East envoy Sol Linowitz, shuttled between Jerusalem and Cairo trying to nail down a "memorandum of understanding" among Egypt, Israel and the U.S. The White House fears that unless the progress achieved so far in the negotiations is closely defined in writing, momentum for further progress may dry up before the Reagan Administration can resume the initiative. Talks on autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza Strip are scheduled to resume in Cairo this week, but only at the nonministerial...
...Egyptian patience is the prospect that elections next year in Israel may bring in a new and more flexible government headed by the Labor Party. Earlier this month, Israeli Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, former Foreign Minister Abba Eban and former Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev visited Cairo to take part in a symposium on the Palestinian problem sponsored by the Egyptian magazine October. Sadat took the opportunity to meet with the Israelis and discuss their mutual concerns...