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Palestinian participation in the cease-fire now in place between Israel and P.L.O. guerrillas in Lebanon, he said, was a "great achievement." Sadat reminded the President that the 1978 Camp David agreement called for Palestinians to be brought into the negotiations this year...
...been frustrated that the White House, preoccupied with Reagan's economic program, has done nothing to develop a Middle East policy, and that the President has displayed a degree of innocence about the issues involved. If nothing else, the specialists at State hope that the cordial meeting with Sadat helped focus Reagan's attention on the intricacy and urgency of the region's problems...
...Sadat also urged the U.S. to build upon Saudi Arabia's recent cooperation in forging the Lebanese ceasefire. Even though the Saudis have berated Sadat for signing the Camp David accords, he urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to support Reagan's proposal to sell Saudi Arabia five new AWACS surveillance planes. For his part, Reagan stressed the importance of bringing moderate Arab nations, particularly the Saudis, into the peace process. Said he: "We have to convince them that we can be allied with them as we are with Israel and that we're not biased...
...Sadat used several maps to illustrate the growing Soviet presence in the Persian Gulf region and Africa and pressed for more U.S. aid and military equipment. The U.S. must be firm in resisting Soviet expansion, he said, but he made a strong plea that anti-Communism not be equated with opposition to national liberation struggles. As he told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City: "The U.S. should support liberation movements everywhere. The case in point is now Namibia. We pressed our friends in Washington to put more pressure on South Africa to comply with the United Nations...
...state dinner for Sadat mixes politics and peach mousse