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...pessimistic about the outcome of the Washington peace talks between Egypt and Israel than it had been since negotiations began more than a month ago. At the White House, according to one Administration official, there was now "a sort of gnawing concern" that the talks might actually fail. In Cairo, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat gloomily remarked that he would not be astonished to see the negotiations break down...
...likely that the Egyptians and the Israelis would be able to resolve their remaining differences in time to sign the treaty by Dec. 17, the deadline agreed upon at Camp David. When agreement is reached, the principals are expected to celebrate the historic occasion by staging twin ceremonies in Cairo and Jerusalem. In the meantime, however, the worrisome final business of linkage must somehow be settled...
...treaty-signing ceremony, the only thing the two sides are agreed on is that it should be an extravaganza. Sadat has suggested either Cairo or Mount Sinai as the site. Begin has proposed Jerusalem. The Israelis have also mentioned Oslo, where, on Dec. 10, Begin and Sadat are due to receive their Nobel Prize. Jimmy Carter thinks the ceremony should be held somewhere in the Middle East. Chances are, though, that he would be delighted to go anywhere in the world to see the peace treaty signed and sealed...
...states that would carry out the Camp David accords. State Department Spokesman George Sherman announced that they had basically achieved their goal. "Principle issues have been resolved" said Sherman. A draft of the treaty, consisting of nine articles and a preamble, had been sent to Jerusalem and Cairo for study and approval. Negotiating work would continue this week on three annexes dealing with such issues as the exact dates of Israel's military withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula and the sale of Egyptian oil to Israel...
Strolling from his art-filled office through a bulletproof door to a balcony overlooking an immense trading room, Cairo-born André Levy pauses to deny a bit of gossip circulating among his fellow money dealers in Lausanne, Switzerland. He insists that it is just not true that his firm - somewhat whimsically named Tradition S. A. - exchanges half a billion dollars for stronger currencies each day. The actual figure, he states with aplomb, is "more than a billion dollars...