Word: ismailia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thousands of Egyptian bystanders cried "Shalom, shalom," three Israeli warships, proudly flying the Star of David flag, last week made a peaceful passage through the Suez Canal. When the 600-ton landing craft Achziv, Ashdod and Ashkelon passed Ismailia, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, in an admiral's white summer dress uniform, stood on the balcony of his holiday villa to salute them. Coming as it did only days after Israel returned the Sinai town of El Arish to Egyptian authority, the trip symbolized the determination of the two ancient enemies to make their peace treaty work...
...eleven-year veteran of TIME'S Jerusalem bureau, was also in Washington, and he too flew back to his old beat. Since the visit of President Sadat to Jerusalem 16 months ago, the native Israeli has reported on negotiations not only in his country, but in Cairo and Ismailia as well...
Indeed, it was Washington that had to resolve the basic issue of where and when the talks would be held. Egypt had proposed Ismailia, the town on the Suez Canal where Sadat met with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin last December; Israel wanted at least some of the talks to be held on its soil and suggested the Negev capital of Beersheba. Carter finally proposed Washington as a compromise. Shortly after the Camp David summit ended, the Egyptians suggested that talks might begin on Oct. 11-which is the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Remembering that Egypt had started...
...Sadat because of his frustration over the then deadlocked peace discussions. This week, at the end of the two-day Jewish New Year celebrations, Israeli negotiators will fly to Cairo to discuss where, when and how the negotiations will be carried out. The Egyptians want to hold them at Ismailia, the Suez Canal town where Begin paid a call on Sadat last December, following Sadat's historic trip to Jerusalem. But the Israelis will insist that some of the discussions be held in Beersheba, capital of the Negev...
...sources said the location was changed from Ismailia, on the Suez Canal, to Washington, so participating American officials would be more available...