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...Saudi statement was also designed to step up pressure on Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to abandon the Camp David peace process and break relations with Israel. Shortly after the Knesset's action on Jerusalem, Sadat shot off an 18-page letter to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, explaining that he had no choice but to suspend the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy (see box). Sadat's decision won him plaudits among his estranged Arab neighbors. Morocco's King Hassan II and Jordan's King Hussein have joined the Saudis in trying to lure Sadat back...
Despite his disillusionment with Begin, Sadat indicated last week that he still regards the Camp David framework as the most promising way to a wider peace. Meanwhile, the Egyptians have launched a global diplomatic campaign to explain why Sadat asked for a hiatus in the negotiations. Among the emissaries dispatched abroad is Butros Ghali, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, who flew to Rumania for a five-day official visit. Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu played a key role in preparing Sadat's historic mission to Jerusalem in 1977. Ceausescu, who heads the only East bloc nation that still...
...letter from Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, addressed to "Dear Prime Minister Begin," started with a solicitous inquiry. Wrote Sadat: "I hope you have fully recovered from what befell you and have regained your health in order to be able to confront the great responsibilities you are shouldering at this delicate stage." In Sadat's letter and Begin's reply, which were made public last week, the two leaders spelled out their thinking on the differences that have led to the breakdown in the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy. By turns eloquent, sentimental and accusatory, the letters also...
...tone of Sadat's letter was courteous, care fully respectful and almost devoid of passion, especially in view of the provocation that prompted it: the Knesset's resolution proclaiming Jerusalem Israel's capital. The Egyptian President praised Begin for remaining "firm in your resolution to follow up the noble cause of peace without regard for the huge efforts required for such a venerable task...
...Sadat wrote of Israel's actions in a curiously passive way, never blaming Begin personally. For example, he noted that "numerous provocative and negative actions have been taken in flagrant de fiance of the peace process and its very essence...