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...eight years of reporting on Arab-Israeli diplomacy and violence since the 1967 war, newsmen have become alert to the subtle nuances of Middle East peacemaking. While it was no secret that a new Sinai accord was in the air, TIME correspondents in Washington, Jerusalem and Cairo saw unofficial signs that the talks had reached a critical stage well before any word that Henry Kissinger might be resuming his shuttle diplomacy. "When the two sides - and their American intermediaries - are at odds," explains State Department Correspondent Strobe Talbott, "then official sources are more likely to let information out to tell...
...Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn saw the renewed diplomatic activity as vindication of a personal optimism that survived the hostile Arab-Israeli rhetoric of recent months. "If you stuck to the declarations of leaders on both sides," Wynn reports, "you could make a good case for the impossibility of an agreement." Wynn saw signs of new diplomatic motion as far back as last April. One evening a few weeks after the end of Kissinger's earlier try at a peace agreement, American Ambassador Hermann Eilts failed to show up at a Cairo dinner party where...
...recollected from his Government days to write the article. Beecher flatly denies the insinuation. "My story," he insists, "is entirely based on interviews I conducted in the past three weeks." Indeed, Beecher's story broke shortly after a three-week trip he took to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Cairo. He also talked, he says, to "U.S. analysts" and came away with "conclusions closely held within the American national security community...
...Egyptian moves by calling up reservists to the Sinai front, but Rabin and his government doubted all along that Egypt was economically or militarily ready for another war. The Israelis were less angered by Egypt's threat than by some of the hostile language emanating from Cairo. Sadat referred to Israel as an "imperial creation" and as "a dagger in Egypt's side." Visibly annoyed, Premier Rabin charged that Sadat was not serious about peace, and that there could be no agreement unless and until the Egyptians agree to face-to-face talks. This is still unacceptable...
Kissinger himself is still hopeful that the gaps will be narrow enough by mid-August to allow him to return to the Middle East to wrap things up with some fast shuttle diplomacy. Indeed, some Washington observers of the negotiations believe that Jerusalem and Cairo may simply be spinning wheels until he gets there. On Israel's part, at least, there is certainly a serious matter of timing involved. Israeli negotiators must decide whether it makes sense for them to accept any agreement prior to the convention of the U.N. General Assembly in September. One key item...