Word: summits
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...review of the summit's opening days convinced the U.S. that Begin and Sadat were disagreeing
...only on the final Saturday that the possibility of a breakthrough began to take shape. While Begin observed the Sabbath, Carter met with Sadat for 2½ hours. Once sundown came, Carter and Begin met for 4½ hours. By that time their negotiators had narrowed success or failure for the summit to just two issues: the Palestinians and the Israeli Sinai settlements...
...attempt to counter what will be a storm of unfavorable Arab reaction to the summit, Carter is expected to dispatch Special Ambassador Alfred Atherton to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and perhaps Syria to explain what happened in the Catoctin Mountains. It is also likely that the Administration will demonstrate its continuing commitment to Sadat. One possibility is that Carter will boost economic and military aid to Cairo, and possibly even sell Sadat 800 of the 2,000 armored personnel carriers that he has requested. By bolstering Egypt's armed forces, the U.S. hopes to enable Cairo to play a more active...
...Middle East, however, the conservative Saudis reluctantly endorsed Sadat's participation at Camp David in the hope that any peace progress would bolster the position of the moderates. But prior to Sunday night, King Khalid & Co. were running out of patience. Said an Arab official in Cairo of the summit early last week: "It is Sadat's last hurrah...
Stunning as the Camp David results were, from the Arab view the summit may still be Sadat's last hurrah. Once again Sadat has demonstrated remarkable courage and statesmanship in promoting the cause of peace, but if his name was mud in much of the Arab world before Sunday night, it is something even