Word: reactor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maintained to his death that he had never signed a separate peace. They were angered by his trip to Jerusalem; even more, they resented his unwillingness to change course when the autonomy talks seemed to be going nowhere. They blamed him for the Israeli raid on the Iraqi reactor last June, which took place just three days after Sadat and Begin had talked in the Sinai. Either Sadat had approved the raid on Arab territory, they said, or he had been duped by the Israelis...
Still, as one White House adviser emphasized, "This was more than just a getting-to-know-you state visit." U.S. officials, notably Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, had criticized Begin's decisions to destroy Iraq's nuclear reactor and to bomb strongholds of the Palestine Liberation Organization in civilian sections of Beirut. Begin in turn had sharply rejected the criticism as unwarranted and unfair. But last week, as Reagan escorted Begin toward his seat for the first White House meeting, Begin dramatically broke away. "Mr. Prime Minister," Reagan called out, "your seat is over here." Begin strode...
Sadat's government has kept a watchful eye on a nascent coalition of opposition groups. Following Israel's bombing of the Baghdad nuclear reactor and Beirut, leftist and religious critics began sharing the same platform to denounce Sadat's wholehearted embrace of the U.S.-sponsored Camp David peace process. The broad purge seemed to reflect an uneasy concern that the regime's detractors were displaying new signs of unity...
...held in the Israeli-administered Sinai town of Ofira in June, had been something of a holding action for Begin, who was facing elections at the end of that month. Whatever bonhomie the Ofira meeting produced was swiftly dissipated by Israel's surprise attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad only three days later. Sadat felt humiliated by both the nature and timing of the Israeli action against an Arab state. He was even angrier after the Israelis bombed Beirut in mid-July, killing some 300 people and wounding 800. So the first item of business at last...
...issue had bedeviled U.S.-Israeli relations for ten weeks, and when it was finally settled the announcement came as something of an anticlimax. Having registered its displeasure over the Israeli bombing of an Iraqi nuclear reactor and a subsequent attack on Beirut that killed 300 people, the Reagan Administration last week released 16 U.S.-built jet fighters for shipment to Israel. The U.S. had ordered the embargo to determine whether Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government had committed a "substantial violation" of an agreement with the U.S. that stipulates that American arms shall only be employed defensively...