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...Egyptians are prepared to develop step-by-step progress in peace talks with Israel that could break the complex Middle East stalemate. The phased pattern: first solve Sinai and the Suez Canal, then Sharm el Sheikh, Gaza, the Palestinian question, the Golan Heights and, finally, Jerusalem. Egypt will not settle for less than the return of all its territories, but Sadat is willing to provide the kind of guarantees that Israel has long demanded. Free navigation in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba, a nonrevocable international force at Sharm el Sheikh and even Israeli purchase of Sinai...
...Emergency Force began to bring food and water through Israeli lines to the beleaguered Egyptians. Beyond that mercy mission, the role of the peacekeeping force was uncertain. It faced unfortunately some of the same handicaps as did a similar force that attempted to keep the peace in Gaza and Sinai before Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered it out in May 1967, thus paving...
...families sat down to traditionally sumptuous meals of lamb, rice, mahshi and sharab (eggplant and yogurt), sticky sweets and fruits. The celebrations, dulled by the uncertainties in the Middle East, were unusually subdued among the 1,000,000 Arabs who live on the Israeli-occupied western bank and the Gaza Strip...
...fate of the plan-which calls for the Israeli treasury to put up $287 million for new development projects in the occupied territories, including Sinai and the Gaza-was never really in doubt. Sapir left before the vote, asking -in an admission of defeat-to have his recorded in the affirmative. In all, 83 members of the 161-member Secretariat were absent; some presumably felt that the result of the vote was assured, but others felt nervous about expressing their opposition...
...Israeli adults opposed concessions on the West Bank (v. 41% a year ago). Other findings: 96% want to keep Sharm el Sheikh and 93% the Golan Heights; 63% are prepared to give up part of the Sinai Desert in return for a peace settlement, but 66% feel that the Gaza Strip, formerly held by Egypt, is not negotiable...