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...summit ends without making much progress, the next move will surely be Sadat's. According to high-ranking Egyptians, he is considering several options. He could, for example, cancel the 1975 Sinai Disengagement Agreement. This would enormously increase tension in the area and could start a chain of events leading to new hostilities. Sadat could also ask the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israel's occupation of Arab lands and demand immediate withdrawal. If Begin emerges from Camp David splattered with blame for the summit's failure, then Washington might find it very difficult to veto such...
...reflected in such congressional actions as the Turkish arms embargo and aid cuts for countries that try to acquire a nuclear capability. They also regard Carter Administration policies as quixotic and punitive. Pakistan, for example, is furious over Washington's jawboning nuclear nonproliferation activities, which recently led France to cancel a contract to provide Pakistan with a nuclear reprocessing plant. The result, says Zia, is that "this is perhaps the lowest point the [U.S.-Pakistani] relationship has reached...
...mission" to Jerusalem, was grinding to a dangerous halt, and that conventional diplomacy had found no way to renew it. And in the Middle East, stalemate generally contains the danger of increased terrorism or, ultimately, another war. Sadat has even hinted at October as a deadline when he would cancel the Sinai Disengagement Agreement unless there is some sign of progress toward peace. By promising to make the U.S. a "full partner" in the talks rather than simply a disinterested mediator, Carter determined to try to rescue the peace process by substituting his own initiative for Sadat's. The President...
...country strong enough, brave enough and proud enough to cancel the Olympic Games in Moscow unless Shcharansky and Ginzburg are released...
Some states have lately begun to forbid property and casualty insurance companies to drop a policyholder for three years after he suffers a loss or accident. Going further, Metzenbaum is considering federal legislation forbidding insurance companies to cancel or refuse to renew policies unless a person runs up a long record of claims for mishaps that are his own fault. That would help to still the protests and make claimants feel that, whatever their bad luck, they were at least getting a fair shake...