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When the news broke, Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman was lunching with some influential Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and could only watch in silence as they raised their glasses to toast Sadat's assailants. Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott experienced an ominous sense of déjà vu. He was with Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi in 1979, when the signing of the Camp David accords was shown on television...
...Says Talbott: "I remember the concentrated, determined hatred that his eyes were beaming at the image of Sadat." A team of experienced Middle East hands worked on the cover package in New York, including Associate Editor William E. Smith, who has specialized in Middle East stories since 1973, and Staff Writer William Drozdiak, Cairo bureau chief until last summer. Supervising the entire Sadat section was International Editor Karsten Prager, onetime Middle East bureau chief, who recalls his own invigorating colloquies with Sadat: "Sooner than any other Arab leader, he recognized the value of putting his case to the Western world...
...Strobe Talbott's Essay deserves a Pulitzer Prize. It is the most in-depth picture of the problem...
...Strobe Talbott totally ignores the fact that in its quest for peace Israel is returning to Egypt the Sinai Peninsula, which contains oilfields that Israel developed and that could have made it energy independent...
...Strobe Talbott's excellent article "The Vulnerability Factor" [Aug. 31] proves a point that even he has overlooked. We have militarized our foreign policy to such an extreme that we fail to ask the question: Given today's depressing arsenals, what objective would justify their use? The obvious answer leads us to conclude that the arms race has its own dynamics as well as its gurus...