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...granting autonomy to the 1.2 million Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Concerned that the May 26 goal for the autonomy talks, as set by the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, was fast approaching, Carter last month had invited both Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin to confer with him separately in Washington...
...incident nonetheless nourished the claims of Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and his hard-lining supporters, who contend that full-fledged self-determination on the West Bank would lead to a P.L.O. state and a permanent threat to Israeli security. To dramatize that message, at the funerals for the slain kibbutz members, Begin declared: "We are no longer defenseless. Permit me to say we have a really magnificent army-you saw it yesterday." Within 48 hours of the kibbutz rescue operation, the Israeli army had rolled across the Lebanese border...
...year has passed since President Anwar Sadat and Premier Menachem Begin signed the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty on the north lawn of the White House. This week Sadat returns to Washington for another round of talks with President Carter, to be followed a week later by one with Begin. The purpose of these separate encounters: to keep the faltering peace process alive by making some headway on the complicated and emotional question of self-determinationor "autonomy," as the Camp David accords put it, with deliberate ambiguityfor the West Bank and Gaza...
...gospel at Shea Stadium, gave an earnest exhortation on why he wants "economics kept outside of the chalk lines." He also confided that a chance for national exposure barely slipped from his grasp this morning when he was bumped from Good Morning America in favor of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
...suspend the 1972 SALT I agreement. Carter's most spectacular achievement, the Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel, will be in grave jeopardy if there is no progress on Palestinian autonomy by the end of May. With no such progress in sight, Carter's invitation to Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat for something in the nature of a Camp David encore this month looks like a combination of nostalgia, grandstanding and desperation...