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What happened to the "spirit of Jerusalem"? Though U.S. Special Envoy Alfred ("Roy") Atherton resumed his shuttle diplomacy between Jerusalem and Cairo last week, the peace process is essentially stalled. Both sides have made mistakes, but most dispassionate observers place the larger share of the blame on Israel and its doctrinaire Premier. Few of his countrymen would fault Begin for his aims or his principles, but a growing number disapprove of his tactics as a peacemaker, as TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff reported last week...
Despite the charges and counter charges, both governments were avoiding actions that would lead to an open break. Dismissing the manifesto as a mere "atmospheric disturbance," the East German official envoy in Bonn, Michael Kohl, declared that the Communists "retain their interest in a continued improvement of relations." Last week West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt stated soothingly that he felt the East German leadership "intends to continue the process of relaxation of tensions." In fact, there are good reasons for both sides to pursue Ostpolitik, Germany's form of detente. East Germany's stake in good relations involves...
...quarrel and differ on the procedural papers. Syria said that if this is an American paper, it is a colonial and imperialist paper. If it is an American-Israeli paper, well, it is colonial, Zionist, imperialist-all these descriptions. I felt also, when President Assad sent a special envoy to me, that Syria was not serious at all about going to Geneva. The Soviet Union was starting its own tricks with the Syrians and with the Palestinians...
Well, in this dilemma, how were we to start the peace process? I considered this one of the turning points in the history of this area. I received a personal letter from Carter in his handwriting in September. It was delivered by a special envoy in Cairo. I read the letter. I wrote the answer in my own handwriting. In my answer-for the first time I am revealing this-I said the whole situation needs some bold action...
...possible exception of the Chinese, who have close ties with Cambodia's rulers, all foreign diplomats are subject to this strange honorable house arrest. They are not allowed to go more than 200 yards or so from their compounds. Because the embassies are not permitted autos, an envoy who wants to make a call or shop at a recently opened "diplomatic store" must request a car from the Foreign Ministry. Predictably, there is little social life. Summed up one diplomat: "The most exciting thing in Phnom Penh was going to dinner with the North Koreans...