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Even as Begin was en route to New York, U.S. Ambassador James Leonard, deputy to Carter's special Middle East envoy Sol Linowitz, shuttled between Jerusalem and Cairo trying to nail down a "memorandum of understanding" among Egypt, Israel and the U.S. The White House fears that unless the progress achieved so far in the negotiations is closely defined in writing, momentum for further progress may dry up before the Reagan Administration can resume the initiative. Talks on autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza Strip are scheduled to resume in Cairo this week, but only at the nonministerial...
After only 45 min. of discussion with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Alexandria, Linowitz announced that the stalled autonomy talks between Israel and Egypt would be resumed shortly. Linowitz said the two nations would begin preparations for another summit conference, to be held in the U.S., probably shortly after the presidential election in November. What was more, Linowitz later added, Israel and Egypt had agreed to consider a U.S. plan-the details unrevealed-to break the deadlock over Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...negotiations were angrily suspended by Sadat last month after the Israeli parliament passed a bill affirming Israeli sovereignty over all of Jerusalem. Linowitz's task was further complicated by Israel's truculent reaction to a series of diplomatic rebuffs at the U.N., and its reasserted plans to establish six new Jewish settlements on the West Bank. The American envoy was also concerned about the distracting influence of West European initiatives in the Middle East, including a current peace mission by Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Gaston Thorn. The Camp David negotiations, declared Linowitz sharply, are "the only game...
During his first meeting with Begin, which lasted almost three hours, Linowitz emphasized that any further diplomatic provocations by Israel-like Begin's threatened move to new government offices in East Jerusalem, where the population is largely Palestinian-could finish off the Camp David peace process. Next day, after a second meeting with Begin, Linowitz announced that the Prime Minister had agreed to make certain concessions that would be "helpful to the atmosphere." Begin later insisted, "We didn't change any detail." But he was evasive on the question of the proposed move of his office to East...
Once the Israelis had given Linowitz private assurance of good will, Sadat quickly agreed not only to the resumption of the peace talks but also to the idea of another summit conference later this year. To make it official, Jimmy Carter invited Begin to come to Washington following a visit to New York, which the Israeli Prime Minister had already planned...