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...reached agreement on such crucial issues as the end of the 30-year state of war and the establishment of relations, the exchange of ambassadors, the location of boundaries, the placement of troops and the role of United Nations forces, and Israeli navigation rights in the Gulf of Suez. Egypt and Israel had also reached a meeting of minds on the future of two Israeli-built airbases in Sinai and the number and size of Egyptian fortifications in the desert peninsula...
Lesser problems that had to be worked out included Egypt's demand for compensation for oil that Israel has pumped from the Gulf of Suez during the eleven years of Israeli occupation, and the Israeli demand for payment for its investment in roads, airfields and settlements in the Sinai during the same period...
...enterprises and $2 billion on military installations, including two big new airfields, two old ones, three early warning stations and about 1,000 miles of roads. Jerusalem continued to develop the Sinai even after the disengagement agreements of 1974 and 1975, under which the Israelis pulled back from the Suez Canal, the Egyptians reduced their forces in the area, and the Israelis returned the Ras Sudr and Abu Rudeis oilfields to Egyptian control...
...learned that the U.S. also has a formal proposal-an eight-page document, spelling out in detail the main issues to be negotiated. The chief areas of discussion: 1) normalization of relations between Israel and Egypt, including the opening of borders, exchange of ambassadors, freedom of navigation through the Suez Canal, tourism and cultural and journalistic exchanges; 2) a timetable for Israeli withdrawals from the Sinai, including the turnover of Israeli settlements and airfields in the Sinai to the Egyptians, and the establishment of demilitarized zones and specified areas for U.N. troops; and 3) future economic relations between...
Indeed, it was Washington that had to resolve the basic issue of where and when the talks would be held. Egypt had proposed Ismailia, the town on the Suez Canal where Sadat met with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin last December; Israel wanted at least some of the talks to be held on its soil and suggested the Negev capital of Beersheba. Carter finally proposed Washington as a compromise. Shortly after the Camp David summit ended, the Egyptians suggested that talks might begin on Oct. 11-which is the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Remembering that Egypt had started...