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This possibility seemed to satisfy Reagan, who began doodling. "Mr. President, I think you need this," said Alexander Haig as he pushed a White House memo pad under the president's pencil...
...Haig interrupted. "Who put you in charge, Ed? The president is here...
...easier; joint U.S.-Israeli naval exercises; and increased access by Israel to U.S. military intelligence. Also under consideration was the possible use of Haifa as a base for U.S. naval forces. Well aware that moderate Arab states will be less than pleased by closer U.S.-Israeli military ties, Secretary Haig stressed that this relationship was "parallel to the kind of things potentially available to them at some point...
...their talks, Reagan and Haig apparently won no concessions from the Israelis, even though they pressed Begin to seek progress in reaching an agreement with Egypt on autonomy for the 1.3 million Palestinian inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza. Haig suggested a deadline of next April 25 for completion of the autonomy talks, which are to resume later this month in Cairo. By April, if all goes well, Egypt will have got back all of the Sinai Peninsula, seized by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Some U.S. officials fear that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat may lose interest...
Begin apparently did not ease U.S. worries about his inflexibility on autonomy issues. Before his arrival in Washington, a State Department official warned that "we will not send a high-level envoy [to the autonomy talks] unless Begin makes us feel it is worthwhile." After the summit talks ended, Haig announced that the U.S. will be represented only by its ambassadors to Israel and Egypt at the first new round of the negotiations. He said the U.S. might elevate its representation if there is progress on the unresolved procedural issues...