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...canal tolls. More important, it was only one of a series of diplomatic and political gestures that together marked as auspicious a week for peace as the Middle East has witnessed since the end of the October war. Shortly before the canal reopened, Sadat spent two days in Salzburg, Austria, for his first meeting with President Gerald Ford; both sides considered it a profitable exchange of ideas about the next steps toward peace. In a tacit response to Egypt's peaceful intentions in reopening the canal, Israel announced a unilateral thinning-out of its forces in the Sinai. This...
...Once the Salzburg meetings ended, Sadat was eager to speed home to preside over one of the most jubilant moments of his 4½ years as Egypt's President-the Suez reopening (see box page 28). Sadat is aware of the canal's economic potential for Egypt's 37 million hard-pressed people. He is aiming to repopulate the canal's shores and has established a giant free-trade zone around Port Said to lure industry and generate jobs...
...told, Sadat was taking some venturesome steps at a time when the Middle East's other protagonists were hesitant about taking any steps at all. Before the Salzburg summit, he prepared his ground skillfully by swinging through Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and Syria. Accordingly, he will meet Ford not merely as Egypt's representative but, he said in Damascus, as the spokesman of all the Arab people...
Popular Hawks. Israel, angered and badly shaken by Kissinger's insinuations that his efforts had been doomed by Jerusalem's intransigence, is aware that it will be under pressure to offer some concessions. "Let's face it," said an Israeli diplomat, referring to the Salzburg talks, "when you get the President involved and the meetings are at that level, something has to happen...
...notable absentee from the Salzburg scene: Sadat's comely wife Jehan, who stayed home to study for final exams. Twenty years after graduating from high school, she decided to seek a college degree, and is now a freshman at the University of Cairo. "How could I go?" she asked TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn. "I couldn't ever pass if I went off to Salzburg. I know Mrs. Ford will be there, but I just cannot...