Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minister Moshe Dayan over dinner at the Israel Museum. Then they flew deep into the Sinai desert to hear Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman during a luncheon at a forward airbase. Next day, after going on to Egypt, the group crossed the Suez Canal as a guest of the Egyptian Second Army, saw the wrecked Bar-Lev line and toured Egyptian fortifications...
...Jordan, King Hussein hosted the group at his palace in central Amman. Back in Egypt a day later, the tour was welcomed by President Sadat to his home at Barrages outside Cairo. There the Egyptian leader was presented with the original cover portrait of himself as TIME's Man of the Year for 1977. Sadat warmly received the Americans and insisted that he was still buoyed by "the spirit of perseverance" in striving to achieve peace with Israel. He accused Prime Minister Begin of maintaining the old divisions between their two countries that he had tried to overcome when...
There is a very severe difference between us," Anwar Sadat concluded sadly last week after the latest meeting between Israeli 'and Egyptian officials. The renewed effort was indeed a failure, since the two sides remained deadlocked on a variety of issues. But perhaps the most remarkable thing about the meeting was that, coming as it did only two weeks after the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon, it had taken place...
...midweek Israel's Defense Minister Ezer Weizman flew to Cairo for the fifth time since last November. This was the first high-level meeting between Israeli and Egyptian officials in nearly two months, and for that reason alone was interpreted by some observers as a new, tentative step toward serious negotiations. After two rounds of talks, and three hours of discussion between Sadat and Weizman, the Egyptian government announced that the Israelis had offered no new proposals and that there would be no more formal meetings of the political or military committees until Jerusalem had changed its position, notably...
...days earlier, Weizman had written to his Egyptian counterpart, War Minister Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, urging that the two meet to review the results of the recent and unsuccessful talks in Washington between Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and President Carter. Gamassy referred the proposal to Sadat, observing that he was not sure whether the Egyptians should meet with any Israeli officials while the Israeli armed forces were still in southern Lebanon. Sadat overruled the objection, noting that Weizman had emphasized in his letter that the Israelis were getting ready to pull out of Lebanon, and that that was good enough...