Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Thursday, three more Friday and in an after-dinner session Saturday, surrounded by maps and documents, they shut themselves up in the Oval Office and argued their differences. Neither side, according to insiders, gave an inch. On the key issue of whether or how to tie the Israeli-Egyptian agreement to a grant of autonomy for the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza, there was no sign of compromise at all. The U.S. has come out in favor of the Egyptian demand for a target date of autonomy one year after the treaty is signed. Israel refuses...
Among his plans: free and compulsory education for all Egyptians up to high school age, extensive electrification of rural areas, an end to press censorship, restriction on government control of TV and radio. But such plans depend greatly on the Middle East peace negotiations. In some ways, Sadat trusts Khalil to handle these negotiations more than he trusts himself. Sadat is visionary and mercurial; Khalil is cautious and dispassionate. Sadat relies on Khalil to weigh and analyze every Israeli proposal more carefully than Sadat himself might. As one Egyptian official put it, "Khalil would not rise and fall like...
...trade, our religious heritage and human rights. Those who listened were impressed with the sincerity of the President and his collection of facts about people and places. But what did not add up was how this country was going to move beyond the disappointments in Iran and the Israeli-Egyptian impasse and go about protecting U.S. interests in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Taiwan and other places. Sadly, many of the people who came away from the White House that night felt the President was spending his energy explaining and justifying America's decline rather than creating a realistic policy...
Akins' most controversial recommendation bearing on the Saudis was to oppose an Egyptian-Israeli peace on the basis of the Camp David plan. Instead, he recommended pressing the Israelis to negotiate a comprehensive peace with the Arab states in which they would surrender all the territory gained after the 1967 War and agree to a Muslim presence in Jerusalem. Akins warned that Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states would stop all aid to Egypt if it reached a separate accord with Israel. "Next," said Akins, "if Sadat doesn't get this aid, he is going to be overthrown...
...friendly countries, and strengthening of the U.S. naval base on Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean. The beefing up, he said, would serve "as a signal that we do view this area as an area of vital interest and would be a psychological bulwark to Saudi and Egyptian leadership...