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...surprising that the House was willing to raise Social Security taxes: Congressmen are not part of this system...
Sadat even went out of his way to propose a resolution of the Palestinian representation problem that might satisfy Israel as well as his Arab colleagues. In a letter to Carter last August, the contents of which he disclosed to visiting U.S. Congressmen in Egypt two weeks ago, he suggested that the Palestinians at Geneva might be represented by an academic of Palestinian descent teaching at an American University. No names were mentioned, but speculation centered on three potential negotiators: Edward W. Said, 42, a Jerusalem-born professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia; Ibrahim Abu Lughod...
Increasingly impatient with the slow progress of the U.S. initiative, Sadat began to think more and more about bold ways to break the stalemate. "The Arab-Israeli conflict," he told the U.S. Congressmen, "contains 70% psychological problems and 30% substance." What Sadat wanted was a move so dramatic that it would both shock and inspire the other parties involved to return to the path of negotiations. That could be only one thing, he eventually decided: speaking over the heads of the Israeli leaders to their people about peace, and doing so in front of their own parliament...
...page program is now in the hands of a joint conference committee. Initially, the committee had hoped to finish its task by Christmas, but with 100-odd separate items in the bill, work is proceeding slowly. The committee decided to recess for Thanksgiving week, and key Congressmen have begun hinting that some of the provisions may have to be broken out as separate bills and presented to Carter in the new year...
Last week, after months of negotiations between the White House and liberal Congressmen, the President endorsed a compromise bill that would establish a national goal of cutting joblessness from its present 7% rate to 4% by 1983. Yet the bill, sponsored by Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey and California Democratic Congressman Augustus Hawkins, requires no specific steps to attain the 4% goal...