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...Whatever they may say in Tripoli," reported TIME Correspondent William Stewart, "the mood in Cairo is still upbeat. Last week Sadat told a visiting delegation of 50 Bedouin chiefs from Sinai that during next year's Feast of Sacrifice, "we shall pray together in the heart of Sinai-there will be no more defeats, no going back. I shall pursue this call for peace.' (During this year's feast, Sadat prayed at Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque.) Sadat's office is inundated with pledges of support from around the country. In the streets of Cairo...
Other than declaring that it will send delegates to the Cairo summit, Israel has not indicated its next moves. Privately, many Israeli officials were delighted by what they believed was U.S. discomfiture at the rapid pace of developments and by a muting of Washington's role as mediator. The Israelis suspect that the new direct contacts between Cairo and Jerusalem make them less susceptible to pressure from Washington to negotiate on what they consider to be unfavorable terms at Geneva...
Whatever thoughts he might have had privately, Begin in his public statements did little to encourage the dreamers. During a Knesset debate last week over the proposed Cairo summit, he took a hard line on territorial concessions in exchange for peace. Said Begin: "We do not accept the demand for June 4, 1967, lines [referring to Arab insistence that Israel surrender land captured during the Six-Day War], nor the demands for the establishment of a so-called Palestinian state, nor the repartition of Jerusalem." Begin also took a passing swipe at Israelis who feel his government owes Sadat some...
...along that Sadat was not a man to trust. Now you know that I was right." Arafat shook his head in silent acquiescence. Without Saudi backing, Sadat simply could not sign such a peace agreement and hope to keep his stature as a leader within the Arab world. In Cairo, however, some diplomats last week were speculating about the prospect of a more subtle scenario for either the Cairo meeting or Geneva. Egypt-with the U.S. as watchful monitor-would negotiate an overall peace with Israel on behalf of all the confrontation powers. Once a draft was agreed upon, Sadat...
...quiet partner of virtually every Arab nation is Saudi Arabia, whose oil-enriched coffers support Egypt, Syria and the P.L.O. But King Khalid and Crown Prince Fahd did not endorse either Anwar Sadat's proposal for a pre-Geneva summit in Cairo or Muammar Gaddafi's call for an anti-Egypt rejection-front meeting in Tripoli. What are the Saudis up to? TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn flew to Jeddah and sent this analysis...