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Haig talks to Gromyko, Begin and Mubarak, who talk back
...Mubarak quietly charts a course of national unity...
Since taking office after the assassination, Sadat's successor, President Hosni Mubarak, has acted with quiet determination to keep both parts of that pledge and lead his country on a course of national unity. He has repeatedly stated that Egypt remains committed to the terms of the Camp David peace treaty, both before and after Israel's return of the last part of the Sinai peninsula on April 25. Says an Egyptian editor: "Mubarak has made peace the policy of Egypt, not just the policy of Sadat." At the same time, the President has promised to chart...
...time has come for me to make a firsthand assessment on the ground." That is precisely what he did. His aim was not to offer ideas but to assess the degrees of flexibility on both sides. For a day and a half, he talked with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali and other officials in Cairo...
Haig got on well with Mubarak. Both are military men, jut-jawed and plainspoken. At the end of the talks in Cairo's baroque Uruba Palace, Mubarak shook hands with Haig and said simply, "Well, I think we are finished." Haig grinned jauntily and replied, "No, see you in Washington." Mubarak arrives in the U.S. for a state visit on Feb. 2, though he may in fact see Haig again in Cairo a few days earlier. Ali assured reporters that Egypt welcomed Haig's participation in the peace process and promised to "intensify" the autonomy negotiations...