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...accepted this advice. Playing host to Israeli Premier Menachem Begin in Washington, a week after conferring with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Carter won an agreement that the two sides would keep talking, on an accelerated schedule, about autonomy for the Arabs living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. That was all: there was no break-through whatever on substantive issues -but then, Carter did not seek...
What emerged from the meetings was an agreement that Israeli and Egyptian representatives will begin nonstop talks on West Bank-Gaza autonomy next week and continue them for the 40 days remaining until May 26, when, under the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, the two sides are supposed to come to an agreement. Sadat earlier had proposed the marathon negotiations and asked that they be held in Washington. Begin, fearing that his representatives would be subjected to U.S. arm twisting, would not agree; he proposed that the talks be held for 20 days in Israel, then for the next 20 days...
...with Carter in Washington last week proceeded amicably, though the two leaders appeared not to have settled on a strategy to resolve the problem at hand: how to revive the moribund Egyptian-Israeli negotiations on granting autonomy to the 1.2 million Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Concerned that the May 26 goal for the autonomy talks, as set by the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, was fast approaching, Carter last month had invited both Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin to confer with him separately in Washington...
Sadat told Carter that he was prepared to try to ease Israeli fears about military security by working out an arrangement to demilitarize the West Bank and Gaza during a five-year transition period. He suggested that joint Egyptian-Israeli patrols or international forces could keep order. Sadat urged Carter to put pressure on Begin to stop planting settlements in occupied territory on the West Bank. The settlement program, he said, "generates hatred and friction...
...organization with approximately 100,000 members that supports many of the P.L.O.'s programs in health and education. She also directs the P.L.O.'s multimillion-dollar assistance program for families of Palestinians killed or captured in various conflicts. An ardent nationalist even as a young girl in Gaza, she became the first woman to join Al Fatah at the age of 16. The struggle to preserve a Palestinian identity was so strong at that time, she says, that "a Palestinian woman had to do a man's work." She is an expert marksman with the automatic weapon...