Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Knesset, Lewis picked up the formal invitation that Sadat had requested. The message was cabled from the embassy in Tel Aviv to Ambassador Hermann Eilts in Cairo?with, of course, a copy to Washington. Eilts in turn personally delivered the invitation to Sadat and cabled back to Jerusalem the Egyptian President's affirmative response...
...elsewhere around the world, there was deep concern in Washington about the eventual consequences of Sadat's mission. A former American diplomat who knows the Egyptian President well feared that Sadat had acted as much out of desperation as inspiration. A moderate who genuinely wants peace, Sadat may have suspected that he faced a hopeless fate at Geneva unless the format and the atmosphere were changed. He would not be able to work anything out with the Israelis, and his strategy would be vetoed by the Syrians and the Soviets at every turn. In that climate, Sadat could not survive...
...even a procedural obstacle to progress in the Middle East. Despite Sadat's solemn promise to other Arab leaders that he will not negotiate a separate peace with Israel, he and Begin will almost certainly explore the possibility of a third accord that would restore more of Sinai to Egyptian control. For his part, Begin made...
TIME's Cairo bureau chief, Wilton Wynn, was the only American magazine journalist aboard the plane that flew Sadat from Abu Suweir Airport near Ismailia to Tel Aviv. A special guest of the Egyptian President, Wynn cabled from Jerusalem this account of the historic flight...
...years as a journalist, Walter Cronkite has covered his share of wars, assassinations, summit conferences and space shots, but few scoops were as sweet as this one. "There was a lot of desk-slapping and hot-diggity-damns around here," the anchorman beamed, after Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli Premier Begin were shown agreeing, on Cronkite's CBS Evening News last Monday, to schedule their historic meeting in Jerusalem. Says Cronkite: "We knew we were on top of something...