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Washington had been fully aware of Sadat's dismay at the outcome of the Foreign Ministers' meeting at Leeds Castle last month. Matters worsened when Premier Menachem Begin rejected Sadat's discreet suggestion that Israel might return Saint Catherine's Monastery and El Arish, the capital of the Sinai, to Egypt as a token of good will. Begin seized on the proposal, which Sadat had never intended to be publicized, as an opportunity for public defiance. "Nobody can get anything for nothing," said Begin. Sadat, embarrassed, accused Begin of deliberately sabotaging the peace talks...
...Israelis responded to the Arabs' gratitude by sending newly appointed Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan on a round of secret visits to Middle Eastern capitals. Premier Menachem Begin had come to power a month earlier vowing that Israel would retain the West Bank and Gaza, Arab lands captured during the Six-Day War of 1967. Nonetheless, the fact that he had agreed to warn Sadat, and the other moderate Arab leaders of impending danger, gave them the feeling that Begin had the stature and the courage to make significant concessions in peace negotiations...
...center of this diplomatic activity was Morocco, which has had close but secret relations with Israel since 1962. In the summer of 1976, while Sadat was visiting Rabat, King Hassan invited Yitzhak Rabin, then the Israeli Premier, to make a secret trip to Morocco. During the ensuing visit, Hassan urged Rabin to negotiate directly with the Egyptians, and said that he would try to arrange a meeting. Rabin, who is well known for his wariness and caution, was delighted. "There are many issues," he assured the King, "that can be solved in direct, face-to-face negotiations...
Soares had been walking a political tightrope since last December. At that time, the National Assembly voted no confidence in Soares' moderate leftist policies. The Premier survived, but only because the conservative-leaning Center Democratic Party (C.D.S.) agreed to form a governing coalition with the Socialists, who held 102 seats in the 263-member assembly. Last month the three C.D.S. Cabinet ministers threatened to resign unless Soares got rid of Agriculture Minister Luis Saias, a former Communist who the Centrists maintained was dragging his feet in restoring to its original owners lands seized by peasants during the turbulent 1974 revolution...
...warned that the Socialists will not participate in any new coalition, thereby blocking the possibilities for any other multiparty government. Eanes' most likely option is to appoint an interim "presidential" government to hold office until scheduled national elections in 1980. If he does that, the leading contender for the Premier's job will be Colonel Mário Firmino Miguel, a political independent who served as Soares' Defense Minister. Firmino Miguel almost became Premier in 1974, when he was the choice of then President António de Spínola, but was forced aside by leftist army officers who eventually ousted Sp?...