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Sadat's decision makes sense mostly if it creates a shift in the Middle East stalemate. Last week the move appeared to have come so suddenly that no one else involved was prepared. The Israelis, normally alert, were caught by surprise; Premier Golda Meir delayed any assessment pending further word from Sadat. In Moscow, Tass waited a full 24 hours to comment, a sure sign that the Kremlin had not worked out answers ahead of time. The eventual explanation for the swift departure of Soviet personnel from Egypt was lame: "Now [they] have completed their functions, and the sides...
...sure Premier Meir would appre ciate your advice as to what would constitute a "normal" reaction to the guerrilla at tacks. And to the skyjackings. And to the airport massacre...
...eight years, they were New York's bright young couple-Carter became a city councilman, and Amanda did charity work. Then they moved into separate apartments. "Amanda has been linked with everybody but President Nixon," remarked Society Columnist Suzy, "and Carter has been linked with everybody but Golda Meir." Last week Amanda, 28, filed for divorce for "cruel and inhuman treatment." Carter, 30, replied: "I'm very surprised and disappointed...
...national pangs of guilt, however, apparently did not extend to more practical levels. Mrs. Meir chose the occasion to suggest that future relations between Japan and Israel might flourish -meaning that Tokyo could lean on some of its largest corporations, who have declined to trade with Israel for fear of an Arab boycott. Japan depends on Arab nations for 30% of its oil; trade with the Arab states totals $1.7 billion annually overall, while with Israel it is only about $48 million...
Israel has always insisted that it went to war in 1967 over the fundamental issue of survival. To bolster that argument, Premier Golda Meir last week declassified for the first time the brief five-paragraph resolution of that year that approved pre-emptive strikes against neighboring Arab states. Outside the Knesset, Israel's parliament, an angry crowd of young Jews and Arabs retaliated with signs declaiming DOWN WITH THE OCCUPATION and A NATION CANNOT BE FREE THAT OPPRESSES OTHERS. Their argument, and that of some other critics lately, is that Israel was merely being expansionist...