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Another problem is the continuing lack of support for Sadat in the Arab world. Syrian President Hafez Assad, who was host to a Damascus summit of radical Arab states that raised $1 billion to overthrow Sadat, was on a tour of the Middle East last week, urging the rejection of the Camp David agreements. Assad's hostility was predictable. More worrisome to the Egyptian President was the fact that his moderate allies, particularly the Saudi Arabian royal family, had so far said little or nothing in his favor. Sadat last week sent his closest confidant, Deputy Prime Minister Hassan...
SUNDAY, SEPT. 10. After Carter, Sadat and Begin tour Gettysburg battlefield in morning, Americans unfold proposals in marathon 5½-hour session with Israelis. Mood is more conciliatory because Begin is now responding to suggestions from Carter rather than from Sadat. But Begin still criticizes many points in great detail, then grows visibly tired after midnight. Carter patiently defends U.S. compromises, keeps the meeting moving. "Carter was incredible," Weizman says. "He never lost control of the meeting for a minute." Outside, says one official, the long Israeli-American meeting makes the Egyptians "nervous as hell." A few of them...
...much into the mind of the author as the playwright himself," says Albee, 50. For his latest project, he has directed a troupe of six actors who are presenting eight of his one-act plays, including The Zoo Story and The American Dream, on a 35-week tour of U.S. and Canadian universities. For parts of the tour Albee plans to be on hand. But actors, beware. The director has a ready brush-off. "When there is a question," he jokes, "I say I'll take it up with the writer...
Winding up its pre-Broadway tour is King of Hearts, which we found fairly entertaining. Adapted from De Broca's classic film, this musical version lacks Alan Bates and Genevieve Bujold, but contains a few good production numbers...
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance flew back from his five-day Middle East tour yesterday without gaining further Arab support for the Camp David accords...