Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...board his plane bound for Washington, Egyptian President Sadat spoke with TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn of his hopes for the Camp David talks. Highlights...
...journey in search of support?diplomatic, military and moral. "A heavy and difficult job lies ahead," he said. His main destination, of course, after a brief stopover in Morocco, was Washington. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was on hand, along with the red-uniformed Marine Band, to welcome the Egyptian leader to Andrews Air Force Base late Friday afternoon. Sadat, accompanied by his elegant wife, Jihan, his 21-year-old son, Gamal, and two of his six daughters, Noha, 20, and Jihan, 17, saluted the American Secretary, then ducked into an Air Force helicopter for the hop to the South...
...cautioned against any expectations of spectacular or decisive results from Sadat's visit. But despite all the efforts to keep the discussions private, the main concerns on the minds of both leaders were no secret. Flying to the U.S. on Sadat's gleaming red, white and black Presidential Special, Egyptian officials admitted their dismay at the recent course of events. On Sadat's trip to Washington last April, Carter had convinced him that Israel wanted a detailed and permanent resolution of the Middle East conflict rather than a mere termination of the long state of belligerency. Sadat felt that...
...Egyptian President is particularly concerned about U.S. arms sales in the Middle East. He feels that Israeli intransigence is a direct result of its huge military force, derived from U.S. aid. Sadat wants the U.S. to sell Egypt up to 120 F-5E fighter planes, priced at about $5 million each, to replace the deteriorating planes acquired from the Russians since 1955. But even more urgently, Sadat's advisers want the U.S. to delay indefinitely compliance with an Israeli request for the more sophisticated $10 million F-16 fighter. "To introduce this aircraft into the Middle East would create...
...even as the U.S. was urging Sadat to engage the Israelis in private peace talks, the eager and worried Egyptian seemed determined to pursue his all-out style of public diplomacy. Before leaving for the U.S., Sadat last week sent off "An Open Letter to American Jews," published in the Miami Herald. He urged them to "revive the spirit of accommodation and meaningful coexistence" in order to "reinforce our belief in the oneness of the human cause." He complained that "the Israeli government in the past few weeks has been negative and disappointing...