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Other points had been largely settled during President Ford's summit talks with Sadat at Salzburg, the Ford-Rabin meeting last month, and a series of exchanges between Kissinger and Rabin that have been under way since then, with Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz as the somewhat fatigued courier. These points include...
...mandate, which came into being with the first-stage disengagement agreement after the October war. At Salzburg he was persuaded by Ford to accept a series of one-year extensions that add up to three years...
...down. He sensed that step-by-step talks were still the best route to disengagement. Rabin admitted last week: "Sadat and I both consider that the U.S. is the only power that can build the necessary bridgeheads." Thus the Secretary of State carefully orchestrated new discussions, leading up to Salzburg and Rabin's Washington talks...
Following closely upon Ford's summit meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Salzburg, Rabin had flown to Washington both to learn the results of that meeting and to explore the possibilities of a second-stage disengagement agreement in the Sinai. Two intense days of talks between Rabin and the President and Secretary of State were less than totally satisfying to either side: they concluded with only an agreement that Kissinger would return to the Middle East once more in midsummer for talks before he is scheduled to meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Europe. What might...
...strength allowed under the 1974 disengagement agreement. Washington was aware of this fact from satellite reconnaissance, but according to Cairo, did not bother to tell Egypt. Some critics accused Israel of fakery by timing the announcement of something that had already been done to coincide with the Salzburg meeting. In fact, this was not really an embarrassment to Jerusalem; Rabin, in announcing the thin-out, made a significant public commitment to keep Israeli forces in the Sinai reduced. Moreover, the Egyptians refused to make political capital of the disclosure...