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During a five-hour private meeting, Assad argued with Sadat not to go, but the two could only agree to disagree. "Unfortunately, President Assad does not agree that I should go to Jerusalem," Sadat told newsmen as he left Damascus to return to Cairo, following a chilly send-off from Assad. In a separate interview, Assad said that it was "painful that I could not convince him nor dissuade him from making the trip." Yasser Arafat also deplored the mission on the ground that it threatened Arab unity, and pleaded with Sadat to cancel the trip. The embarrassed Arafat...
...Attorney Frank Briscoe, a cousin of Governor Dolph Briscoe, led a field of twelve candidates in a muted, gloves-on primary. The gloves are expected to come off when Briscoe faces former City Councilman Jim McConn, a Houston developer, in a runoff next week. In Washington State, two former newsmen are about to take some of their own medicine. TV Analyst Charles Royer was elected mayor of Seattle, and TV Anchorman Ron Blair became mayor of Spokane...
That was untrue-as Western newsmen who visited the scene quickly discovered. In a highly unusual move, Premier Menachem Begin summoned U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis to his office in Jerusalem to express sympathy for the victims. Said Begin: "If the news reports are correct on civilian casualties, we regret it very deeply, but we do not apologize for the operation itself. If there is quiet on the other side, there will be absolute quiet on our side...
With my whole soul I said, 'Now I will not be silent.' " He addressed his letter to four Soviet papers, all of which refused to publish it. But he gave copies to Western newsmen. Referring to the officials who pass upon art in the Soviet Union, Slava asked: "Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word? . . . Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he In knows, what he has personally thought about, experienced, and not merely...
...Vance and Gromyko's most productive session to date, but their public statements were cautious, even cryptic. After one session, for instance, the Soviet diplomat said to newsmen at the State Department: "We have waded into the stream, but we haven't walked out of it yet because there are lots of rocks. I would like to urge all of you to display some patience." To which Vance added: "Until we get to the other side of the shore, I don't have much to say." At meeting's end, both sides sounded slightly more optimistic...