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...Middle East. As Mondale left Alexandria for Washington last week, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat handed him a new six-point peace plan to pass on to Israel. The plan is Egypt's response to a 26-point proposal presented by Israeli Premier Menachem Begin at the Ismailia conference last December. Washington sources optimistically contended that the two plans, although predictably far apart on every major issue, would serve as "a fair basis for negotiations...
...agreement we shall have to bear in mind the security problems of Israel. I had the dubious pleasure the morning of May 13, 1948, of having a Jordanian column trying to cut the country in half. I wouldn't like that to happen again. When President Sadat, in Ismailia, got a little annoyed with me and said, "Ezer, if this doesn't go through, I'll have you chased all over the world." I replied, "Please, Mr. President, the first time I started chasing you was 20 kilometers south of Tel Aviv in May 1948, and look...
...Carter-Sadat statement at Aswan could form the basis for that much-pursued but elusive "declaration of principles" that Sadat and Begin tried to formulate at their Christmas summit in Ismailia. If the Egyptian and Israeli Foreign Ministers, who are scheduled to meet next week in Jerusalem, can agree on a declaration of some substance, Sadat will once again be able to invite the other Arab states to join the talks. If they still refuse to participate, Sadat may consider himself free to go ahead and make a deal with the Israelis on Sinai. He would call...
With ahwa and shay served, Sadat raised his glass and declared: "This is a happy day in my life, to have you seated here, facing us in Ismailia and discussing substance and not procedure." When he expressed his pleasure at having the conference "close to the place where Moses crossed the sea," Begin quipped: "It took Moses 40 years to cross the desert on his way to the Promised Land, while it took us only 40 minutes to cross...
...been personally driven by a head of state, and Begin mentioned he had never even bothered to learn to drive. Said Sadat: "It is a lot of fun, and I enjoy it very much." After sightseeing for a few minutes on Timsah Island, Sadat and his guests returned to Ismailia for lunch...