Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before Carter and his policy advisers had a chance to assess the ploy and reply, Eilts learned that Sadat was planning to propose such a conference in a speech to Egypt's national assembly. A message was dispatched to Egypt asking Sadat to hold off announcing the summit until the U.S. could sound out other Arab states and the Soviet Union. The request either arrived too late or was ignored by Sadat...
...Saudis as well. State was also concerned about a negative reaction from Moscow. As soon as it became clear that neither the other Arabs nor the Soviets were going to Cairo, Carter announced that the U.S. would attend-but only after the President had asked Sadat to delay his summit until mid-December. In the meantime, U.S. diplomats will be trying to lobby the Arab moderates-primarily Hussein and Lebanese President Elias Sarkis-to send representatives to Cairo...
...attitude of Syria's Assad will have much to do with what happens next. He willingly attended the Tripoli summit, which was held in the lavish Arabian Nights-style People's Hall that once served as the Libyan capital's royal palace. Assad was under strong pressure to become a member of an enlarged rejection front implacably hostile to any negotiations with Israel. Expectations were that he would, in the end, refuse the overtures. For one thing", the ideological gap between Iraq and Syria, which are governed by rival branches of the socialist Baath Party...
...agreement that will counter what one of his aides calls "the present drift toward surrender." But any such agreement, as far as Assad is concerned, will have to rest on the premise that peace is the goal and war the last-ditch alternative. Depending on how the final summit declaration is worded, Assad may go along with Palestinian-proposed resolutions calling for economic sanctions against Cairo and other measures designed to isolate Sadat...
Other than declaring that it will send delegates to the Cairo summit, Israel has not indicated its next moves. Privately, many Israeli officials were delighted by what they believed was U.S. discomfiture at the rapid pace of developments and by a muting of Washington's role as mediator. The Israelis suspect that the new direct contacts between Cairo and Jerusalem make them less susceptible to pressure from Washington to negotiate on what they consider to be unfavorable terms at Geneva...