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Neither Vance nor Sadat spoke with reporters after the meeting, but a State Department spokesman described the talks as "very good, full and constructive...
Saudi Arabia a secret interpretation of Communism conforming to the teaching of Islam?" Publicly the Saudi leaders are keeping their cool; privately they are enraged at the Egyptian attacks. "When Sadat dies," sneers a Saudi businessman, "the Egyptian people will dig up his bones and piss on them." At the root of the quarrel is Sadat's bitterness at the Saudis for failing to support the Camp David accords. With Saudi help, Sadat believes, at least one or two other moderate Arab states could be enticed into joining or supporting the peace process, and that in turn could eventually...
...cannot set a date," said Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, "but I am sure of one thing. Sooner or later we shall be signing an agreement." Later would appear to be a stronger bet. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced last week that the slow-moving talks would resume at an unspecified date. But the issue of linkage-that is, relating Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula to political changes for the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip-remains a major stumbling block...
...Sadat, who announced that he will not show up in Oslo this month to receive his Nobel Peace Prize, had particularly good reasons to be concerned about the stalemate. The relationship between Egypt and its chief bankroller Saudi Arabia, which lies at the heart of Washington's hopes for Middle East stability, has reached its lowest ebb since the mid-1960s, when Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal backed opposing sides in the Yemeni civil war. TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who knows both countries well, offers some insights into...
...Saudis have made it clear to Sadat that the extent of future support will depend, in no small part, on the degree to which Sadat succeeds in linking the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty with an overall settlement. For that reason Sadat is pressing the Israelis to agree in the treaty to a specific timetable for negotiating the future of the West Bank and Gaza...