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...announced that he would not be sending his delegates back to he Cairo talks. The Egyptian President also said that informal "serious negotiations" with Israel were still going on; Atherton was apparently a key conduit. Begin later declared that he expected his Cabinet to authorize Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman to resume discussions in Cairo this week with his Egyptian counterpart, Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy...
...most unmistakable human manner" their desire for peace, but he accused their government of deceit and said he had threatened war if Israel insisted on keeping its settlements in the Sinai (see box). "I will not allow a single settlement," Sadat said he told Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman last month, "even if this requires that I fight you to the ends of the earth. " Sadat praised the U.S., and said he would ask Washington to provide Egypt with a military arsenal as large and as sophisticated as the one it has provided Israel?not so Egypt could launch...
...such issue: Israeli settlements in the Sinai, which was the focus of discussion between Israel's Ezer Weizman and Egypt's General Mohammed Abdel Gha-ny Gamassy who met in the Tahra Palace on the outskirts of Cairo. Privately, both sides insisted that the Sinai settlements were not a fundamental problem. In fact, one leading Egyptian official told TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn: "We suspect the Israelis are making so much of the Sinai settlements in order to establish the principle of settlements in the occupied territories-and later to apply that principle to the West Bank...
...hard today. Let us take a break before lunch and make a small trip." Even the drivers and bodyguards had been given no warning of this excursion and had to scramble to their cars. Sadat ushered Begin into the front seat of a Cadillac and asked Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan to climb into the back. To everyone's surprise, Sadat got behind the steering wheel...
...Until the Egyptian advance team arrived, some Israelis wondered whether the visit would actually take place: perhaps it was all a ruse to lull Israel into complacency. Among the skeptics was the army's chief of staff, Lieut. General Mordechai Gur, who defied a gag order from Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and gave an interview to the Hebrew daily Yedioth Aharonoth, in which he offered a "worst case" scenario. Gur suggested that Sadat was preparing to launch a surprise attack on Israeli-occupied Sinai, similar to the one that started the 1973 October War. The general warned all Israelis...