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Officials in Cairo insisted that the trip was being extended merely for a little vacation in the Alps. Some vacation. Flying into Vienna for a brief visit that started with a weekend gathering of the Socialist International, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat met twice last week with Israeli Opposition Leader Shimon Peres; the talks had been arranged by their host, Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. After retiring to a 16th century resort hotel outside Salzburg, Sadat then conferred with U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who just happened to be vacationing nearby at his summer home on the Attersee. Abruptly canceling...
Toward that end, the Egyptian President is sending out peace feelers to Begin's potential successors in office. Over the weekend, Sadat met in Vienna with Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, who last week told Austrian journalists that his party is "ready to retreat from some territories" if it is returned to power...
...cursing. The decision, in his view, "will lead us all to another round of wars. I will go and prepare the army for the next war." The Labor opposition was also sharply critical. "What is the point of giving an answer that nobody will accept?" demanded Opposition Leader Shimon Peres. "Who needs a decision that by its very nature is a neither-nor reply?" Added former Premier Yitzhak Rabin: "It is ridiculous that the three main Cabinet members cannot agree on a decision like this...
Before the Americans left Israel, they visited a hillside kibbutz near Jerusalem to hear Opposition Leader Shimon Peres, and talked with Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan over dinner at the Israel Museum. Then they flew deep into the Sinai desert to hear Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman during a luncheon at a forward airbase. Next day, after going on to Egypt, the group crossed the Suez Canal as a guest of the Egyptian Second Army, saw the wrecked Bar-Lev line and toured Egyptian fortifications...
...leaders of the Labor Party opposition have resumed open criticism of the government's policies in the belief that their attacks could hardly damage the peace process as much as Begin's tactics have done. "Begin's method of negotiating on the Sinai was a mistake," says Opposition Leader Shimon Peres. "He didn't keep a fallback position. He started from the end, apparently forgetting that negotiations are supposed to result in each side giving something. What else did he expect to give?" Former Labor Premier Yitzhak Rabin makes virtually the same point: "I believe Sadat's conditions...