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...dogs can go on barking-but they will not stop the caravan." So said Egypt's President Anwar Sadat last week, in a brave dismissal of critics within the Arab world who have denounced him as a traitor for signing a peace treaty with Israel. In fact, those "dogs" yapping at Sadat have plenty of bite. The truth is that the cost of peace for both Israel and Egypt is beginning to hurt in earnest...
...outsider who seemed to understand this best was Israeli Premier Menachem Begin. Last week he pointedly expressed his own concern for Sadat's "isolation" and said, "We should like to help President Sadat as much as we can." That offer was more striking in light of Begin's own peace-related problems: a major political row between his Likud coalition government and the Labor opposition and an angry split in his own Cabinet...
...each other into a room and walk out later with neither of the two satisfied but both having stepped a lot closer together." One Texas-size question: Will the cajoling style that served Strauss so well in smoke-filled rooms at Democratic conventions have the same effect on Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin...
...poll found that a record low 23% of those questioned feel things are going well in this country, compared with 45% in June 1977. The poll also found that Carter, who rose substantially in popularity in the wake of his Camp David meetings last September with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, has again fallen into low esteem in the country. The President has lost important ground to all his political opponents...
Begin's visit to Cairo had come at a slightly awkward moment for Sadat. Meeting in Baghdad, the Foreign Ministers of 18 Arab countries and the Palestine Liberation Organization had agreed to take diplomatic and economic action against Egypt, including the breaking of diplomatic relations and the removal of Arab League headquarters from Cairo to Tunis. On the day of Begin's arrival, in fact, almost all Arab ambassadors were bound for Cairo airport on their way home. Sadat's willingness to receive Begin at such a moment suggested to foreign observers the degree of his determination...