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Periodically TIME presents its readers with an advance look at the memoirs of famous men. Excerpts first appeared in TIME from such works as Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev's Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament (1974), Anwar Sadat's In Search of Identity (1978), and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's White House Years (1979) and Years of Upheaval (1982). In this issue, TIME offers Part 1 of a two-part serialization of Jimmy Carter's Keeping Faith, the former President's personal account of his years in the Oval Office...
...excerpting on the following pages the memoirs of an American President, who, as he writes, "spent more of my time working for possible solutions to the riddle of Middle East peace than on any other international problem." It was Jimmy Carter who brought Begin and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat together for 13 days of highly charged negotiations that finally produced the Camp David accords of September 1978. That agreement remains the framework for a broader peace settlement now being pushed forcefully by Ronald Reagan...
...Sadat wanted a strong initial proposal on the record, to appease his fellow Egyptians and the Arab world, but he would be willing to make major concessions (within carefully prescribed limits) so that his final proposal would prove to everyone the reasonableness of his approach...
...weakness: the artful use of constructive ambiguity allowed each signatory to proclaim agreement while holding different interpretations of what the words really mean. In some instances, those diverging views are spelled out in letters that accompany the text signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and President Jimmy Carter on Sept. 17, 1978. For example, Sadat and Carter, in separate letters, stated their views that predominantly Arab East Jerusalem is part of the West Bank...
...quickly you befriend each other," he says of his counterparts round the world. "You know that you are faced with the same problems and the same frustrations." Companionship at that level of power is special, and he never felt it so deeply as at the time of Anwar Sadat's assassination. "It was not just a sorrow, the sympathy that you have for someone well known," Reagan says. "There was a feeling of personal loss. That was when I first began to realize that there is a bond when you meet these people...