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...trip did not begin propitiously for Haig: he was already miffed that Weinberger had commandeered Air Force 86970-the posh 707 used by Henry Kissinger when he was Secretary of State...
Once aboard his own 707 jet, however, Haig plunged into work, poring over thick briefing books throughout the trip as his wife Patricia sat across from...
Egypt was the first stop on his itinerary. Haig met with Sadat for two hours at the Egyptian leader's villa outside Cairo and declared that Sadat's "strategic appraisal closely coincides with President Reagan's own world views." Nonetheless, the Egyptian President would not make a formal agreement allowing the U.S. to utilize the Red Sea air and naval base at Tas Banas. Sadat has offered to let American troops use the facilities temporarily, but Washington would prefer a written contract before spending the $106 million needed for modernization...
...Haig was heartened by one important concession from Sadat: if, as expected, the United Nations Security Council does not approve an international peace-keeping force to patrol the Sinai Peninsula after Israel completes its withdrawal next year, U.S. troops will be permititted to help patrol the area. Haig assured Sadat that the American troops ould make up no more than half of the 2,000-to 4,000-man force and would not be deployed elsewhere in the Middle East...
...Jerusalem, Haig met with Prime Minister Menachem Begin for 4½ hours and breakfasted with Shimon Peres and Abba Eban, leaders of the opposition Labor coalition. Haig found the Israelis warmly receptive to his strategic views. Said Begin of Haig's anti-Soviet clarion call: "It is not an artificial alarm. The free world is shrinking and is in permanent danger." Haig also pleased his Israeli hosts by denouncing the Syrian assault on Christian Phalangists in Lebanon last week as brutal-an apparent reversal of longstanding U.S. policy to remain neutral in the festering Lebanese conflict...