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...trap for the Secretary of State is whether he can satisfy all parties with multiple negotiations. The Sinai talks will be relatively easy, but tricky nonetheless. Egypt demands the return of the oilfields at Abu Rudeis and the strategic Mitla and Giddi passes through which Israeli armor has moved three times to fight her. Israel is not prepared to surrender Abu Rudeis until alternate fuel supplies are firmly guaranteed. The form of this guarantee-and of any firm U.S. guarantee of Israel's security-could become sticking points...
...seemingly closer in their views on the topics for the next stage of negotiations, it will take delicate diplomacy by the Secretary to bring them together. Israeli Premier Rabin last week, in an interview with the Paris daily Le Figaro, announced that he was willing to return the strategic Mitla and Giddi passes in Sinai to Egypt-in return for a peace treaty. Israel has also indicated that if alternative oil supplies can be guaranteed by the U.S., it will hand back the Abu Rudeis oilfields along the Gulf of Suez. Egypt, for its part, shows new willingness to sign...
...that in return for Egyptian concessions, such as a declaration of nonbelligerence, Israel was prepared to give up as many as 50 miles in some parts of occupied Sinai. Sadat rejected this proposal as "unacceptable," on the ground that the Israelis were not willing to surrender either the strategic Mitla and Giddi desert passes or the captured Egyptian oil wells at Abu Rudeis, which supply Israel with about 60% of its petroleum...
...beginning of trade relations as the price of further Israeli withdrawal. For tactical reasons, Rabin has now set his sights much lower. He will not agree to give up the Abu Rudeis oilfields, which now provide Israel with 50% of its petroleum needs, or the Giddi and Mitla passes in the Sinai without substantial Egyptian concessions. But for a renewal of the terms of disengagement between Israel and Egypt, he says he is prepared to withdraw Israel's forces as much as 30 miles farther back into Sinai, though the two passes would remain in Israeli control. "Otherwise," says...
...over coffee to discuss implementation of their agreement. The document they had signed allowed each side five days to plan a withdrawal of forces to new and separate positions (see map next page). They have 49 days to complete the pullout. The Egyptians had demanded Israeli withdrawal to the Mitla and Giddi passes in Sinai in two weeks; the Israelis had requested six to eight...