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...discussions had bogged down, at least with respect to what anybody would have called substantive issues. Reviewing the situation, Jimmy Carter decided it was once again time to invoke the spirit, if not the reality, of Camp David. Carter's ploy: to invite Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin to visit him separately in Washington next month. The President was careful to play down the inevitable comparisons with Camp David; this time there were no plans for a summit bringing together the three men. But the President hoped that the talks would lead to new efforts...
...Cabinet last month approved a resolution allowing for Jewish settlement in Hebron and in other Arab towns, but the Cabinet has been split on how it should be carried out. Impatient with the delay, Levinger's people are now threatening to occupy vacant houses in Hebron. Premier Menachem Begin has said the squatters are violating the law, but he has not ordered the army to evict them. On the contrary, army reservists stand guard outside the occupied Hadassah clinic round the clock to protect the squatters. Some of the soldiers dislike the duty. Said one reservist: "I vomit twice...
...charged in parliament that it was "the height of absurdity" to name a foreign policy spokesman opposed to his government's major diplomatic achievement. Officials in Cairo and Washington professed not to be worried, however, arguing that the only one who sets foreign policy in Jerusalem is Premier Menachem Begin...
Seldom in recent years has the U.S. been subjected to so much scorn and ridicule. In Israel, the Knesset formally rejected the U.N. resolution, which Premier Menachem Begin described as "repugnant and unjustified." American Jewish publications, reflecting Israeli opinion, were unimpressed by Carter's disavowal. Brooklyn's Jewish Press charged that Carter had sold out Israel for oil and described his action as a "stab in the back" to all of its readers. Reporting Carter's reversal, Saudi Arabia's state-controlled radio said acidly: "May God have mercy on his soul." The Kuwait daily...
...wealth of factual information gives the book the air more of crackling investigative journalism than of fast-moving fiction. Virtually all the international figures in The Fifth Horseman-the important exception being the U.S. President-are identified and living people. Israeli Premier Menachem Begin's daughter Hassia plays the piano in the family's Jerusalem apartment; France's President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has a secret meeting with his top aides to discuss energy matters...