Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...step-by-step approach. Foreshadowing Kissinger's visit, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko concluded a Middle East tour of his own to press the Russian preference-a return to Geneva. Syrian President Hafez Assad, the most unbending leader of the Arab confrontation powers, supports that preference. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat still has hopes that Kissinger can achieve further progress; nonetheless, the joint Egyptian-Soviet communiqué issued after Gromyko's visit reflected Sadat's desire for eventual resumption of the Geneva conference. Even members of Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government, which long worried about...
Rabin has made it clear that he is willing to make withdrawals in the Sinai in return for Egyptian political concessions in the nature of a non-belligerency pact or a demilitarization of the territory. Withdrawal in the Golan Heights presents a more difficult problem because of the great tactical advantage the Golan Heights would give to the Syrian army, traditionally the most virulently anti-Israeli of the bordering Arab states...
...before we can have peace," he continues, "the Arabs must change their attitudes about Israel. We want them to demilitarize the Sinai in return for our withdrawal. But even more important would be the deletion from Egyptian schoolbooks of those passages that call for the destruction of Israel. They should take out the parts in math books that ask. 'If you murdered three Israelis this morning, and murdered four Israelis in the afternoon, how many Israelis did you kill today...
Soviet Role. The Israelis and Arabs tried quickly to knock down dangerous conjectures about trouble ahead. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who wound up his first official call on France's President Valery Giscard d'Estaing with a sizable order for French armaments, insisted that "for the first time in 26 years, peace is possible." Israel's leaders reaffirmed their intention of ceding large chunks of Sinai in return for guarantees of nonaggression...
...Egyptian President Anwar Sadat received the group not in Cairo, but at his favorite winter vacation spot, Aswan. Sadat was in an amiable mood as he relaxed on a sofa in a salon of the New Cataract Hotel-where Kissinger stayed during the first round of shuttle diplomacy last year-and answered the TIME group's questions. Among them...