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Negotiation should have more élan than that. Negotiators ought to be the future's heroes (in the way, perhaps, that Sadat and Begin and Carter were for a time after Camp David). To make something out of nothing, to fashion possibilities out of dead ends, is to be literally creative. Negotiation is one of the serious arts of the imagination. The deeper resources of wisdom must collaborate with the nimblest reflexes: the gambler's touch, the athlete's tuning, the magician's tricks, the gentleman's equilibrium...
...Henry Kissinger in Vladivostok to work out a SALT agreement or sending the Marines after the Mayaguez? Ten to one for peace. And Jimmy Carter will never come closer to heaven in this life than when he flew back from Camp David to announce that Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat had accepted his peace accords...
...Sadat's program hardly touched the lives of Egypt's poverty-stricken masses. Mokhtar Younis, 54, is a baggage porter at the Cairo railroad station and lives in a nearby slum. He is able to get work only about 15 days a month, for which he receives a monthly take-home pay of about $14. He and his wife Ne'mat, 28, live with their eleven children in a single room that measures just...
Many experts maintain that the first step in economic reform is to establish more realistic prices for the seven key commodities. In 1977, when Sadat tried to cut back the subsidies, bloody food riots broke out around the country. Nonetheless, the new government will try to tackle the problem again. Economics Minister Meguid says that the state is planning to embark on a food stamp program early next year that will continue subsidies for the poor and middle class but force the rich to pay the full price. Mubarak also said last week that he plans to direct al infitah...
...President's businesslike style is already drawing plaudits. Says one Western diplomat: "Sadat was a visionary, but he certainly was no administrator...