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...chief obstacle to solving the deadlock remained the status of the Mitla and Giddi passes in the Sinai. The passes are the only viable routes through the Sinai mountains for armies moving either toward the Suez Canal or away from it toward the Israeli border. Israel, which controls the passes, has offered to pull back to their eastern end, where it maintains electronic listening equipment to monitor Egyptian troop movements. Egypt's Sadat, on the other hand, demands that Israel pull out of both passes completely. He has threatened not to renew the mandate of the United Nations peace...
Irritating Visit. Egypt considers the arms defensive. Sadat wants peace in Sinai to protect the Suez Canal, and he would undoubtedly welcome a U.S. guarantee. It would mean that Egypt could reach an informal agreement with Israel but would not be bound by a formal treaty or a politically unpalatable pledge of nonbelligerency until there was also agreement on the Syrian front and on the Palestinian issue. Some kind of understanding would protect moderates like Sadat from attacks by radical Arabs, notably the hard-lining Palestinians. In Tripoli last week, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is feuding with Sadat...
Triple Rates. Sadat's principal argument in the face of extremist accusations is that moderation pays off. The newly reopened Suez Canal, in addition, handled 54 ships in its first full week of operation, including one U.S. freighter, the 21,000-ton Spirit of Liberty. None contained cargo for Israel, as far as was known. The volume of traffic satisfied canal authorities, although they worry that triple insurance rates, in force as long as there is no formal peace, may discourage business and limit toll revenues, which Egypt hopes will reach $450 million annually...
Despite their desire for business, however, canal authorities last week abruptly turned away one prospective customer. Abie Nathan, onetime Tel Aviv hamburger king who lobbies for Arab-Israeli friendship aboard his "peace ship" Shalom in the Mediterranean, sailed the 110-ton vessel into Port Said. Nathan hoped to make good on a pledge to sail through to the Israeli port of Eilat. He was refused passage and escorted back to sea by the Egyptian navy...
...latest projects have moved into an area explored by only a few other American sculptors, like Richard Serra: neither earthwork nor freestanding construction, but midway between the two-steel plates embedded into planes and strips of earth. The first of these immense environmental pieces was her 280-ft. Land Canal and Hillside built in Dallas in 1971: a string of triangular steel forms down the dividing strip of a highway, rising and falling and tilting, meant to be seen as a changing sculpture from the windows of swiftly passing cars. The largest-not yet built-is a 1½ acre...