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Paul's 1975 election decree continued the centuries-old ban on vote trading and open campaigning but encouraged more discreet activity: "We do not have the intention of forbidding the exchange of views concerning the election during the period in which the see is vacant." Exchanges were certainly taking place in Rome last week. Said one Italian member of the conclave: "The Cardinals discuss everything about the papabili...
Washington had been fully aware of Sadat's dismay at the outcome of the Foreign Ministers' meeting at Leeds Castle last month. Matters worsened when Premier Menachem Begin rejected Sadat's discreet suggestion that Israel might return Saint Catherine's Monastery and El Arish, the capital of the Sinai, to Egypt as a token of good will. Begin seized on the proposal, which Sadat had never intended to be publicized, as an opportunity for public defiance. "Nobody can get anything for nothing," said Begin. Sadat, embarrassed, accused Begin of deliberately sabotaging the peace talks...
...aides of Senator Ribicoff tried to start their lobbying careers by advertising their services to help Americans working abroad lessen their tax burdens ?for a fee of $200,000. Ribicoff has denounced them, and their fellow lobbyists say they violated a rule of the trade: they were not discreet...
...This discreet apparition just dancing now on the margins of publicity raises some fascinating questions...
...London, meanwhile, will be to play a discreet yet forceful role in bridging gaps where a consensus seems possible. There is no intention, for the moment, of submitting a U.S. "plan," although some State Department officials privately concede that floating a last-ditch American sketch might prove more palatable than reverting to yet another call for a Geneva parley. Washington also wants to persuade both sides to cool their public rhetoric and explore the possibilities of working through more private channels. "Israel and Egypt have, in a sense, always negotiated in public, and when seen in that light, the differences...