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...agreement. Carter's most spectacular achievement, the Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel, will be in grave jeopardy if there is no progress on Palestinian autonomy by the end of May. With no such progress in sight, Carter's invitation to Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat for something in the nature of a Camp David encore this month looks like a combination of nostalgia, grandstanding and desperation...
Both Begin and Sadat welcomed the meeting, which the Egyptian had suggested to the President in a letter three weeks ago. Nine rounds between Israeli and Egyptian negotiators, in addition to five face-to-face encounters between Begin and Sadat, have had only mixed results. Administration officials emphasize that some 20 issues involving the jurisdiction of the Palestinian body to be elected have been agreed upon; the local authority would have full power to tax, for example, and to run its own police force...
Just one day after the White House announced the forthcoming visits of Premier Begin and President Sadat, Secretary of State Vance was attacked by members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who seemed as anxious as the President to show their support of Israel. The subject was the fiasco at the U.N. when the U.S. first supported and then repudiated a resolution criticizing Israeli occupation of Arab territory that it seized during the 1967 war. The caustic tone of the session was set by New York Senator Jacob Javits, a firm backer of Israel, who announced on Feb. 25 that...
With the talks with Sadat and Begin coming up, Vance was obviously reluctant to delve into touchy aspects of U.S. policy. Trying to pin Vance down, Maryland's Senator Paul Sarbanes asked him at length about Administration views on Israel's control of East Jerusalem, which is bitterly opposed by the Arabs. The Israelis want the area because it contains the Wailing Wall and other Jewish holy places. Said Sarbanes: "Is it the position of our Government that East Jerusalem is considered an occupied territory?" Replied Vance at last: "That is the position...
...Iran was on the move. On Sunday, a spokesman for Panama's air force said that Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 60, ailing from an enlarged spleen and a form of lymphatic cancer, had left the country aboard a chartered DC-8. His destination: Cairo, where Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had made an open-ended offer of sanctuary. The Shah's flight from Panama, his home in exile since December, could create internal difficulties for Sadat, whose regime is being criticized by Muslim zealots sympathetic to the Iranian revolution. The departure would also complicate diplomatic efforts to free...