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...Sadat locks up his opponents
...June, fighting erupted among rival worshipers in a Cairo slum and left at least 14 dead. Soldiers were posted in front of Coptic churches but failed to thwart a bomb attack in August, on a Coptic wedding party, that killed three, including two Muslim guests. Last week President Anwar Sadat made good on his threat to deal harshly with what his government has described as "sectarian sedition." In the most sweeping crackdown since he took power nearly eleven years ago, Sadat's government banned six political publications and jailed at least 1,100 of his most volatile critics: religious...
...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 week's talks was a full discussion...
Then the two men turned to the autonomy negotiations, which the Egyptians had broken off in May 1980 after Israel took steps to declare its sovereignty over Arab East Jerusalem. Begin bluntly asked Sadat when he thought the talks should be resumed. "Why not immediately?" declared Sadat, and the two quickly agreed to have ministerial delegations meet in Cairo on Sept. 23 and 24, soon after Begin's return from talks with President Ronald Reagan in Washington...
Last week, as Begin met in Alexandria with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, it was Sharon who spelled out the final schedule for the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai desert next April. A fortnight earlier he had issued new guidelines for Israeli forces serving in the occupied territories. Henceforth, they should avoid entering Arab schools in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights; roadblock checks should be as civil as possible; and efforts should be made not to treat large segments of the Arab population as terrorist sympathizers. The orders amounted to an admission that the dour, ironfisted occupation policy...