Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joint commitment was the major achievement of Vice President Walter Mondale's four-day tour of the Middle East. As Mondale left Alexandria for Washington last week, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat handed him a new six-point peace plan to pass on to Israel. The plan is Egypt's response to a 26-point proposal presented by Israeli Premier Menachem Begin at the Ismailia conference last December. Washington sources optimistically contended that the two plans, although predictably far apart on every major issue, would serve as "a fair basis for negotiations...
...ground either. It called for the withdrawal of Israeli forces and settlements from both territories, under the supervision of the United Nations. In a five-year transition period, during which a final agreement would be negotiated, the West Bank would be under Jordanian authority and Gaza returned to Egyptian protection. The plan also demanded the return of East Jerusalem to Arab authority; the Arab section of the Holy City has been formally merged with Israeli West Jerusalem since...
They dismissed Sadat's proposals as a hardening of the Egyptian position. Said one Israeli official: "Egypt has gone back to square minus-one." Nonetheless, Israeli officials were convinced that they should go to London, if only to help dispel Jerusalem's image as the "bad guy" who was the stumbling block to a peace settlement. But after Premier Begin made another hard-line speech, a Western diplomat in Israel sadly remarked that "the diplomatic Novocain has already worn off"-a reference to the fleeting benefits of Mondale's visit to Jerusalem...
Toward that end, the Egyptian President is sending out peace feelers to Begin's potential successors in office. Over the weekend, Sadat met in Vienna with Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, who last week told Austrian journalists that his party is "ready to retreat from some territories" if it is returned to power...
...Chaim Potok. The author of The Promise and The Chosen has won literary converts of many faiths with novels about the inner and outer conflicts of the Hasidic life. For his forthcoming history of the Jews, Wanderings (Knopf; $17.95), the famed novelist visited concentration camps and trekked across the Egyptian sands to Mount Sinai. When he is not traveling or writing, Potok often indulges in an early love for painting; numerous examples of his work adorn his home. In fact, he once wanted to be an artist, but his parents persuaded him to scrap the idea...