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...lodestar remains fixed: April 26, the day on which Israel, under terms of the Camp David accords, is scheduled to return the final third of the Sinai Peninsula to Egyptian control. The Israeli withdrawal is vital to the Camp David peace process, to the Egyptian government of President Hosni Mubarak and to the maintenance of peace in the Middle East...
Haig will also visit Egyptian President Mubarak, whose main foreign policy priority is to get back the remaining one-third of the Sinai. The Egyptians have mixed feelings about the prospective naming by the U.S. of a special Middle East negotiator. On one hand, they welcome the step, feeling that only the U.S. can persuade the Israelis to compromise. "It is important for the U.S. to remain active all the time, not just seasonally," says Osama el Baz, a key Mubarak adviser. On the other hand, the Egyptians warned that the U.S. envoy should not try to pressure them into...
Since he succeeded the assassinated Anwar Sadat in October, Mubarak has run Egypt with extreme caution. Last week, however, he shuffled his Cabinet for the first time, naming twelve new ministers out of 34. Surrendering some of the day-to-day duties of government, the President appointed as his new Prime Minister a veteran politician, Fuad Mohieddin, 55, who has been active in Egyptian public life for 20 years. Among the Cabinet members shifted: Interior Minister Nabawi Ismail, who was in charge of domestic security at the time Sadat was slain...
...Mubarak was host last week to French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson and Defense Minister Charles Hernu. At the close of the visit, Egypt announced that it had signed a $1 billion agreement with France for the purchase of 20 advanced Mirage 2000 jet fighters. The decision pleased neither Israel, which does not look with favor on arms purchases by any Arab state, nor the U.S., which would have preferred that Egypt buy American when it modernizes its outmoded arsenal. Mubarak presumably is anxious to broaden the base of the country's arms purchases. The Mirage deal is an opportunity...
...dumbfounded" and charged that the move violated the 1907 Hague Convention that demands respect for local law in occupied territories-an implicit affirmation that sovereignty cannot be transferred in such cases "except in the event of insurmountable difficulties." In his strongest foreign policy statement to date, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called the move "a blow to the peace efforts" in the Middle East...