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...addition to its coverage of the week's news, TIME in recent years has been giving its readers a bonus: excerpts from major books of international consequences-the memoirs of Anwar Sadat and Theodore H. White, a study of Chiang Ching (Mme. Mao Tse-tung). But never before has TIME offered an excerpt comparable in importance or scope to the one that will run in three parts beginning next week: Henry Kissinger's long awaited memoirs. TIME'S readers will be the first in the U.S. to receive a serialization of the book...
...better than anyone expected." marveled President Carter's special Middle East envoy, Robert Strauss, last week. "It's a dramatic change in their relationship, and we hope to keep developing that good chemistry." Strauss was speaking of that odd couple of the Middle East, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the mercurial visionary, and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, the Talmudic legalist. Despite the glaringly obvious disparity in their temperaments, the awkward relationship between the two leaders that was so apparent at Camp David a year ago continues to grow into a sense of mutual respect and even affection...
Strauss first flew to Cairo for meetings with Prime Minister Moustafa Khalil, who heads Egypt's negotiating team, and then called on President Sadat at his hilltop retreat overlooking the Pyramids, on the outskirts of Cairo. Sadat seated Strauss at the evening session so that while he talked the Ambassador would have a compelling view of the Pyramids, illuminated by a bright harvest moon. Strauss later informed Carter: "Under those conditions, whatever Sadat had to sell, I would have bought...
...Egyptian President talked enthusiastically about his summit with Begin and urged Strauss "not to knock the Israelis over the head." Said Strauss later: "Sadat has gone from hope and optimism to absolute certainty about the inevitability of success in the peace process. He feels we have come so far down the road that there is no longer any worry of a breakdown." The U.S. Ambassador also came away convinced that Sadat has opted for a "narrow approach" to the peace process and has abandoned the broader strategy, favored by Washington, of trying to coax Jordan and the Palestinians to join...
More than anything else, Sadat is anxious to carry out the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty without delay. This would enable him to retrieve the Sinai and its oil wells from the Israelis. He does not wish to get embroiled in any new controversies that might offer the Israelis a pretext to balk on the timetable, which now calls for the return of the areas containing the oil wells by next November. Explained an Egyptian member of the autonomy committee: "If we can establish the sense of permanence and stability we have today in the bilateral relations between Egypt and Israel...