Word: egyptians
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Begin and Sadat arrive separately at Camp David this Tuesday. The Egyptian President is arriving from Paris, where he was to meet with French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to discuss the summit's prospects. At Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, he will probably begreeted by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who will escort him to the presidential helicopter for a 35-min. flight to Camp David's helipad. Vance is expected to remain at Andrews to meet Begin, who is due 90 min. later from New York City, where he was scheduled to spend two days resting...
...with two large bedrooms, two bathrooms and a large sitting room with a fireplace. Cooks at Aspen Lodge are on 24-hr, call to prepare any dish the guests order, and they have a list of the two visitors' gastronomic favorites. Sadat, nonetheless, is bringing his own chef; the Egyptian leader is a health buff who carefully watches his diet. Kosher meals are available for Begin...
...labors after Sunday-morning church services. Begin will not participate in talks from sundown Friday through sundown Saturday. It is uncertain how Sadat will observe his Sabbath, but White House officials hope he does not want to go into Washington to pray at the Islamic Center Mosque near the Egyptian embassy. Admitted an Administration official: "We want everybody to stay up there in the hills. We don't want any circus...
Sadat made an important concession to the Israelis by journeying to Jerusalem, saluting the Israeli flag and battle banners, standing before the assembled Knesset and declaring on behalf of his fellow Egyptians: "We welcome you among us with full security and safety . . . We accept to live with you in a permanent peace." That was tantamount to Egyptian recognition of Israel, which Israel has long demanded as a condition for reaching a settlement...
Begin's responses, however, have often seemed inadequate and at times rude. Speaking in January at a Jerusalem banquet for Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel, for example, Begin patronizingly referred to his guest as a "young man" who failed to understand the supposed parallel between the Palestinian desire for a homeland on the West Bank and the Nazis' claim to the Sudetenland. Later he brusquely dismissed the significance of Sadat's visit to Jerusalem by asserting: "We have existed, my dear Egyptian friends, without your recognition for 3,700 years. We never asked your President or government to recognize...