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From the preliminary accounts they received last week, Israeli diplomats indicated Sadat had sounded flexible enough to make feasible another attempt at negotiations. They were disturbed, however, by his insistence in Salzburg and again at the canal ceremonies that Sinai negotiations be linked to talks with Syria about the Golan Heights. Jerusalem has steadfastly resisted such a linkage on the ground that it would complicate a difficult negotiating process. Rabin in Washington, moreover, is likely to face new pressures for Israel to surrender the Abu Rudeis oilfields and the Sinai passes in return for an extended second-stage agreement. This...
Among the newsmen who covered the reopening of the Suez Canal last week were TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager, who observed the shoreside ceremonies, and Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who, as pool reporter for the English-speaking press, was aboard the October Six with Sadat. Their accounts of the celebration...
After all the buildup, reported Prager, the event itself at the white and green canal authority building alongside the harbor was refreshingly short. There, 600 invited dignitaries, including Crown Prince Reza of Iran, 14, foreign ambassadors, and defense ministers and army generals of other Arab nations, occupied a ceremonial platform shaped like a pharaonic solar ship...
General Mohammed Abdul Ghani Gamassy, Minister of War and commander of the armed forces, handed the canal over from military to civilian control and called the occasion "a day of joy." Sadat signed a document making the civilian takeover official, then spoke briefly. He declared the reopened waterway "a tributary to peace and a channel to prosperity and cooperation among men." At the same time, he said, Egypt had to reiterate "its determination to perform the sacred duty of liberating its land and all Arab lands still under occupation in the Golan Heights, Sinai and Palestine, and recovering usurped Arab...
...Qantara East, the assembled crowd released flocks of white doves. At Ballah, a triple line of women in traditional red, blue, green and gold dresses stood on a multicolored mosaic canal bank and danced to flutes and drums. A cascade of balloons sailed skyward. Said one of many banners: WE HAVE OPENED THE CANAL. WE WILL KEEP IT OPEN...