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...power base in Egypt?least of all in the military, which for the moment backs Sadat's initiative. So do two of Egypt's three token opposition parties. Sadat also received the endorsement of one of his country's highest ranking Muslim leaders, Grand Sheikh Abdel Halim Mahmoud...
Elsewhere as well, terrorist violence continued. At Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Iraq-based Palestinian gunmen accidentally killed the local Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Seif Bin Ghobash. Their presumed target: Syria's visiting Foreign Minister, Abdul Halim Khaddam. In a remote region of northwestern Africa, guerrillas of the Polisario front, which is seeking independence for the former province of Spanish Sahara, kidnaped two French nationals in Mauritania, bringing to 13 the number of French hostages they are believed to be holding somewhere in Algeria. Following a special Cabinet meeting in Paris, French Defense Minister Yvon...
...Arabs, of course, were dismayed by the agreement. Carter and Vance immediately began testing the working paper on Arab diplomats, including Egypt's Ismail Fahmy and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam. The U.S. strategy was to discuss the working-paper provisions along with other American proposals that the Israelis had not agreed to, in hopes that Arab reaction might lead to further refinements of a formula for Geneva. Apparently the approach worked. As one leading Arab diplomat told TIME, "There have been more pluses than minuses for us in these sessions...
...Washington after a mysterious side trip for some personal diplomacy of his own. He was followed by his counterpart from the most moderate of Israel's adversaries, Ismail Fahmy of Egypt. This week, when Carter and Vance meet with Jordanian Premier Mudar Badran and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam, the talk may turn tougher. Khaddam is expected to urge the U.S. to speed up the peace process by making use of its heavy leverage on Jerusalem...
There was nothing essentially new in the Arab League position, which was not regarded as moderate in Israel. Nonetheless, some observers of the meeting note that the wording of the paper could have been far stronger. Syria's Foreign Minister, Abdel Halim Khaddam, argued that the delegates should propose Israel's expulsion from the U.N. and the adoption of sanctions against the Jewish state. But even the "rejectionist" Iraqis admitted that it was not practical to crack down hard on the Israelis. Thus they backed the moderate stance of Egypt, which was subtly supported by Saudi Arabia, whose...