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...fact, a meeting that was called not so much to work out major agreements as to satisfy the needs of each of the celebrated participants. Under a blazing Sinai sun and a deep azure sky, Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat met last week for their tenth summit since Sadat made his ice-breaking visit to Jerusalem...
...they produced no ground-breaking agreement, or at least none the two leaders were willing to reveal. But the very fact that the meeting had occurred seemed to be enough to allow each man to walk away pleased, although Begin clearly had more reason to smile. He had got Sadat to agree with him on a key point: that Syria was to blame for the missile crisis in Lebanon. Declared Sadat: "My view is that the Syrian forces should withdraw from Lebanon. [They were] the cause of everything...
...Sadat had feared that war between Syria and Israel would scuttle all chances of a comprehensive settlement in the region, and perhaps endanger the Camp David peace accord with Israel as well...
...Sheikh (renamed Ofira by the Israelis), the port city near the southern tip of the last stretch of the Sinai that is due to revert to Egyptian sovereignty next April. Each leader brought along an entourage: Begin's included Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon; Sadat was aided by Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan...
Like the veteran and skilled performers they are, Begin and Sadat once again put on a public display of warmth and respect that reflected their private views of each other. They talked at the White Elephant, a local restaurant on a sandy strand of beautiful Naama Bay. Relaxed and smiling, the two leaders posed in wicker chairs on the restaurant's windswept veranda like a couple of contented tourists. There was a brief moment when the air of cordiality at the conference was threatened by an angry demonstration of Israeli settlers, who will be forced to leave when...