Word: summiteers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter surprised in talks with aides. He finds elBaz, aide to moderate Sadat, unexpectedly technical and difficult. Barak, aide to rigid Begin, seems reasonable and flexible. "Barak was the unsung hero of the entire summit," one U.S. official says. "There would have been no agreement without him. He refused to accept the idea that a particular problem just wasn't solvable...
Sadat agrees to remain at Camp David. Carter proposes a deadline of Sunday to wind up the summit, hoping the pressure may help. "He wanted it to end neatly at a fixed time, rather than die by gasps," says one American. The sticking point now is Begin's refusal to agree to withdraw settlements from the Sinai. But he does offer alternative: he would leave that issue up to the Knesset to resolve. Told of this, Sadat reluctantly agrees...
Rarely had Cyrus Vance been so ebullient. In the hours after his Boeing 707 took off from Washington for the Middle East last week, the Secretary of State was still basking in the glow of the Camp David summit. After 20 months on the job, Vance had finally helped score an important foreign policy achievement for the U.S., and he was justifiably proud. Wearing a sweater and slacks, he sat in the aisle talking to reporters for more than an hour. But as the plane flew eastward into the night the mood began to fade. And by the time...
...Sadat broke his homeward journey in Morocco to see one of his closest Arab allies, King Hassan II, and Jimmy Carter conferred with Sudanese President Gaafar Mohamed Nimeiri, four hard-line Arab states and an assortment of Palestinian liberation groups assembled in Damascus for the third so-called Steadfast Summit. The theme: Fight Sadat?and topple him if possible...
What had happened was that the Camp David agreement had caught the moderate Arabs by surprise. They had expected failure, followed by a reconciliation between Sadat and most of the Arabs, and then probably an Arab summit conference. On this premise, in fact, Hussein had been planning to meet with Sadat during his stopover in Morocco. But the successful conclusion of the summit changed everything...