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...mediators would be helpful in each of these bilateral negotiations. Deadlocks could be referred to the plenum group under pre-arranged conditions for further discussion, but in no case could this group of other nations impose its collective will on any of the directly involved parties. From 1973 until Sadat's dramatic visit to Jerusalem in 1977, it was presumed that the U.S. and the Soviet Union would be co-chairmen of an international peace conference. Now, as one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, the Soviet Union would play a similar but lesser role...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat promised his countrymen that "every inch" of Egyptian territory seized by the Israelis in 1967 would eventually be recovered, but when the Israelis withdrew from the rest of the Sinai in April 1982 under the terms of the 1979 peace treaty, they held on to Taba. The coastal strip, five miles southwest of the Israeli town of Eilat, already boasted a Tahitian-style resort village, complete with topless beach, which had been built by a businessman with a 98-year lease from the Israeli government. Seven months later, in November 1982, another entrepreneur completed...
...keep them from penury. Last February national security police rioted after the rumor spread that their hitch would be extended from three years to four. Reason: the conscripts earn less than $10 a month, on which many of them must support families. In 1977, when former President Anwar Sadat tried to cut food subsidies, widespread rioting almost brought down his government. "We learned from the lesson of 1977," says an Egyptian official. "We can't repeat it again...
...fundamentalist threat. One senior official describes the religious minority as a "few hundred" people who "cannot do any damage on a national scale." But others see it as a steadily rising influence, particularly in the universities. Few Egyptians can forget that it was a fundamentalist group that assassinated Sadat in a hail of bullets in October...
Nearly nine years have passed since the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat made his famous trip to Jerusalem, a moment of high drama that led to a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. At least one other Arab ruler, King Hussein of Jordan, is believed to have held secret talks over the years with high- ranking Israeli officials. But not until last week did a second Arab leader acknowledge publicly that he had met face to face with a head of the Jewish state...