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...thousands of Egyptian bystanders cried "Shalom, shalom," three Israeli warships, proudly flying the Star of David flag, last week made a peaceful passage through the Suez Canal. When the 600-ton landing craft Achziv, Ashdod and Ashkelon passed Ismailia, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, in an admiral's white summer dress uniform, stood on the balcony of his holiday villa to salute them. Coming as it did only days after Israel returned the Sinai town of El Arish to Egyptian authority, the trip symbolized the determination of the two ancient enemies to make their peace treaty work...
...another emblem of that will was a mutual agreement by Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin to declare the borders between the two countries officially open. That decision was reached by the two men during a 15-min-ute private session in El Arish at a refurbished villa that only days before had been the headquarters of local Israeli water authorities. The border opening will not mean instant normalization of relations: details still need to be worked out concerning what ground rules will govern the initial visits. In return for Sadat's agreement to open borders, Begin freed...
...Egyptian President candidly admitted that some of his aides did not agree with the border-opening decision, which according to the treaty could have been delayed until January 1980. "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was opposed to the idea, but I had given a promise to Begin," Sadat told reporters. "So it became a matter of my Ministry convincing me or vice versa, and believe me I convinced them...
Although not yet on "Anwar" and "Menachem" terms, Begin and Sadat appear finally to have melted the frost that until now has characterized their personal relations. In El Arish, they joked with each other to such an extent that at first they seemed oblivious to the presence of U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who in turn seemed happy to be left out. "I was delighted," he said later, "to see how their personal relations are so much better now that they can relax in each other's company." Sadat and his wife Jehan that day had marked their...
President Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat announced their "framework for peace" the night before classes began. The close to a thousand students who flocked the next day to Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," found a different textbook. The course dropped the Samuelson "Bible" in favor of Lipsey and Steiner's "Economics...