Word: israell
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MIDDLE EAST. Carter has staked considerable prestige on the prospect of a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt, but the artificially imposed Dec. 17 deadline came and went with nothing but recriminations from both sides. Cairo and Jerusalem remain publicly optimistic about an eventual peace treaty, yet the Israelis, who have been the more inflexible, have shown no willingness to give in on the points that divide the parties, chiefly the question of Palestinian self-rule on the West Bank. Dismayed at the impasse, Carter has threatened to abandon his mediation efforts in the Middle East. But the threat...
...gets 8% of its imported crude from Iran: Western European countries from 20% to 40% of their supply. The impact of the dead stop in Iranian oil shipments has not yet been felt, even in South Africa (which depends on Iran for 90% of its crude) or Israel (which relies on Iran for 70%). Saudi Arabia has made up much of the slack by expanding its output from 7 million bbl. per day to a maximum capacity flow of 11 million...
...only Christmas Day but also his 60th birthday, and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was in an expansive mood as he addressed his countrymen on television. True, he castigated Israeli Premier Menachem Begin for seeking to create "a greater Israel extending from the Euphrates to the Nile." But he also voiced confidence that the Middle East would not revert to the "no-war, no-peace stalemate" of recent years, and he assured, "Peace will come, sooner or later...
...while he quietly wooed the moderates, Sadat continued to give the back of his hand to Arab radicals. Egypt, said he, "will not pay attention to the diatribes and shallow viewpoints of the rejectionists." Sadat knows that the radicals alone cannot make war against Israel; he is also convinced that they cannot help the Palestinians as long as they refuse to enter the negotiations...
...review of security arrangements between the two countries after five years, the timing of the exchange of ambassadors and whether the treaty would supersede Cairo's other commitments to the extent that it would prevent Egypt from going to the aid of another Arab country attacked by Israel. Presumably these issues can be resolved in time...