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...agreed to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Sinai at least until July, a shorter extension than Washington had hoped for, but enough to give U.S. diplomats a little breathing space. Among other things, Sadat's maneuver 1) put pressure on the Syrians to renew their own U.N. mandate on the Golan Heights, which expires May 30; 2) strengthened his support in Western Europe; 3) pleased Moscow and thereby served to encourage the Soviets to supply Egypt with more military aid; 4) made Sadat seem conciliatory while tightening the screws on Israel to make concessions...
...keynote of Sadat's special address to Egypt's People's Assembly last weekend. "Some may expect an emotional reaction from me [to the breakdown of the Kissinger efforts] but I prefer action to reaction," declared the Egyptian leader. Thus, despite fears that Cairo would not renew the mandate for the U.N.'s peace-keeping forces in the Sinai, which expires on April 24, Sadat said he would agree to a three-month extension because "I do not want to place a sudden crisis before the international community." Yet, he explained, he would not agree...
There is increased tension. Israel will maintain all its obligations under the disengagement agreements with Egypt and Syria and the cease-fire resolutions with Lebanon and Jordan, but on one condition-that it be done on a mutual basis. If any of the countries decide not to renew the [U.N. forces] mandate, it will serve as an indication that their intention, either militarily or in the long run, is to bring about a deterioration of the agreements themselves...
...Besides renewing individual marriages, the two Encounter movements hope also to renew and strengthen the Catholic Church. Says Father Ed Schramm, executive priest at Worldwide headquarters: "The future of the church is in the deeper appreciation of relationships, and Marriage Encounter can be a gift in speaking what that means. To me, it takes the words of Paul about loving as Christ loved and that nothing else really matters. Those words jump alive when a couple sees that loving each other really makes a difference and that the world needs that in them...
However, in the confusion there was, surprisingly, no censorship or harassment of reporters by the Thieu regime -at least for the moment. Such freedom was a marked change from the secret-police tactic of beating up Western newsmen covering demonstrations, or the possibility that the Information Ministry might not renew the visa of any reporter writing an unfavorable story. It was almost old home week for the press in Saigon. But the shadow of defeat darkened the occasion...