Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopes of getting a treaty by Sunday, Dec. 17, a psychologically important deadline because it had been set as the goal for a treaty when the Camp David summit concluded, in a burst of exuberant optimism, exactly three months earlier. But at week's end, reluctantly acknowledging that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin were still far apart on the few unresolved issues, a disappointed Vance abruptly cut short his shuttle and returned to Washington. As Vance headed home, a weary Sadat met with his aides, and the Israeli Cabinet held a special five-hour session that...
Because so much has in fact been accomplished, the failure to meet the Dec. 17 deadline, while certainly disappoint ing, does not necessarily doom the Egyptian-Israeli peace process. As a result of the progress made during talks in Washington in October and November, Egypt and Israel agree on most points of a draft treaty. The unresolved issues are truly mi nor, although they relate to the crux of a major Middle Eastern diplomatic problem: How directly should an Egypt-Israel peace be linked to a general Arab-Israeli settlement? So far, the negotiating process has proved remarkably durable, surviving...
...first two Vance-Sadat meetings. held in the Egyptian leader's Nile resthouse at the Delta Barrage, 15 miles north of Cairo, cheered the Americans. Vance emerged from the second session reporting "good progress." He interrupted the Cairo talks for a flight to Jerusalem for the funeral of former Israeli Premier Golda Meir. Sensitive to the impropriety of conducting diplomacy at such a moment, Vance huddled only briefly over coffee in a private room at the airport with Israeli Foreign Minister Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman...
...Egypt before there was any exchange of ambassadors, and that such an exchange could be indefinitely postponed. Still, Vance was greatly encouraged. He felt that the Israelis would recognize that he had won important concessions from Sadat and therefore react favorably to the trade-offs sought by the Egyptian. Abandoning caution, Vance ventured a statement that, for him, was daring in its finality: "We have finished those two issues." Added the Secretary after arriving in Israel: "We are now in the final stages of the negotiations...
...about how the negotiations were going, Carter said: "I called to ask you to come back because I've got something I want you here for." The President, of course, was referring to the dramatic developments in U.S.-Chinese relations. Because it now seemed all but impossible for an Egyptian-Israeli agreement to be reached by Dec. 17, Vance said that he would return to Washington by Friday afternoon...