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...process degenerated into procedural nitpicking, much of it on the key issue of who would represent the Palestinians. Sadat believed that if everyone continued quibbling over what he called "a word here, a comma there," he would not get to Geneva for months; peace might be delayed for years. High-level diplomats think Sadat also had another fear; at Geneva, his moderate position might be outvoted by the Russians, who hate him, and by hard-lining Syrians and Palestinians...
...progress: two key committees would be formed, one headed by the respective Foreign Ministers, the other by the defense chiefs. These groups, explained Begin, "will work out all the details, which will lead to the signing of peace treaties." So alive now was the momentum for peace that one high-level Israeli official said he expected these special committees to convene within a day or two. The progress seemed so positive that Sadat invited Begin to stay overnight for further discussions. "Praise be to Allah," said Sadat, "that we have started giving a push forward even before...
Crown Prince Fahd and King Khalid forgave and apparently forgot after Sadat sent a high-level emissary to soothe their wounded feelings. The Saudis expressed full understanding of Sadat's objectives and made it clear that they are not opposed to a direct Arab-Israeli dialogue. The Saudis, however, also explained that they could not publicly support Egypt's move lest they weaken the broad range of contacts they have laboriously built up all across the Arab world. They now are in a position to influence such disparate and often inimical regimes as Marxist South Yemen and Somalia...
Teachers are capable of doublespeak too. During last week's award ceremony, a spokesman for the award committee was asked to define doublespeak. "It's an umbrella term," he replied after an awkward silence, "a high-level abstraction to describe pernicious use of language." At least he winced as he said...
Each of the reforms is, to a degree, a step away from the complex hierarchical structure that Gorski established, and which critics have accused of promoting cronyism among high-level supervisors and officers eager for promotion...