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...statements last week, the Administration indicated quite clearly that it blames Israel more than Egypt for blocking a peace settlement. White House Press Secretary Jody Powell declared that the matter of peace "is now in the hands of the Israeli government." While Carter praised Sadat for being "very generous" in making concessions requested by the U.S., the President suggested that Israel was refusing to accept a timetable that actually had been proposed by Dayan and Weizman...
Domestically, she let Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir run the country as if it were his private store. Thanks to generous infusions of U.S. aid and contributions from Israel's American Jewish supporters, the private store thrived mightily, despite inflation, high taxes and rising military costs. In foreign policy, she reflected her country's cockiness after the stunning victories of the 1967 Six-Day War, as well as the average Israeli's suspicion that there could be no peace with Israel's neighbors. Said she: "The Arabs wish us dead. We want to live. That...
...Ernst F. Sedgwick Hanfstaengl was a generous member of the Harvard Class of 1909 with a "perennial affection for Harvard, Boston and New England...
Despite their hurt feelings, the Saudis insist they will not cut off Egypt without a dime. But they are not likely to be as generous as they were in 1977, for example, when they reportedly provided Cairo with around $1 billion in aid. "We deal on the basis of principles, not emotions," says Saudi Information Minister Mohamed Abdou Yamani. "No matter what has happened, our relations with Egypt remain the same." A Saudi newspaper editor in Jidda is more blunt. "Sure, we will let the Egyptians attack us and insult us," he says. "Then they will send us a letter...
...classic, and it is impossible to see a picture of Kafka, Mailer or Proust without remembering the artist's caustic lines. But there is another, gentler Levine: a water-colorist of enormous delicacy and control. The Arts of David Levine (Knopf; 205 pages; $25) celebrates both with generous samples of serious portraiture, beach scenes and parodic sketches that recall the nervous poignance of Daumier and fully justify John Updike's appraisal of the artist as "one of America's assets...