Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principals nudged their way reluctantly, morosely toward something that might pass for agreement. One thing that might serve to lure them closer together is the Nobel Peace Prize, which the two are due to receive on Dec. 10. But Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat were slouching toward Oslo, counting every pace and grumbling over every step...
...short, Washington is still holding out for a timetable for West Bank negotiations, to begin within a month of the signing of the peace treaty and to conclude by Dec. 31, 1979. First, however, there is that other timetable: if Sadat and Begin expect the celebration in Oslo to have any real meaning, they had better reach an agreement soon...
...treaty-signing ceremony, the only thing the two sides are agreed on is that it should be an extravaganza. Sadat has suggested either Cairo or Mount Sinai as the site. Begin has proposed Jerusalem. The Israelis have also mentioned Oslo, where, on Dec. 10, Begin and Sadat are due to receive their Nobel Prize. Jimmy Carter thinks the ceremony should be held somewhere in the Middle East. Chances are, though, that he would be delighted to go anywhere in the world to see the peace treaty signed and sealed...
Even as the negotiations for a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel appeared to flounder in Washington, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee last week announced in Oslo that this year's award would go jointly to Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin. Few Western observers would quarrel with the selection of Sadat, whose courageous mission to Jerusalem last November had set the stage for the tumultuous peace drive that followed. But in its attempt at even-handedness in naming Begin to share the honor and the $173,700 in prize money, the committee (see box) made...
...Jerusalem. At week's end an aide to Menachem Begin predicted that the big event would take place in early December. If so, it could be held just before or after Dec. 10, the day when the Nobel Peace Prizes are to be presented to the recipients in Oslo...