Word: weizman
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...announced that he would not be sending his delegates back to he Cairo talks. The Egyptian President also said that informal "serious negotiations" with Israel were still going on; Atherton was apparently a key conduit. Begin later declared that he expected his Cabinet to authorize Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman to resume discussions in Cairo this week with his Egyptian counterpart, Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy...
Meanwhile, at the military committee, Weizman and Gamassy will again take up the problem of Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai. While there is hope for the settlement of this issue, the committee may not be able to solve a problem that has profound emotional overtones for Begin as well as for Sadat: the Jewish settlements in Sinai. In his early talks with Begin, the Egyptian President thought he could ultimately persuade Israel to dismantle them as part of an overall peace settlement; thus he was shocked by Begin's subsequent vow that they would be maintained no matter what...
...most unmistakable human manner" their desire for peace, but he accused their government of deceit and said he had threatened war if Israel insisted on keeping its settlements in the Sinai (see box). "I will not allow a single settlement," Sadat said he told Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman last month, "even if this requires that I fight you to the ends of the earth. " Sadat praised the U.S., and said he would ask Washington to provide Egypt with a military arsenal as large and as sophisticated as the one it has provided Israel?not so Egypt could launch...
...such issue: Israeli settlements in the Sinai, which was the focus of discussion between Israel's Ezer Weizman and Egypt's General Mohammed Abdel Gha-ny Gamassy who met in the Tahra Palace on the outskirts of Cairo. Privately, both sides insisted that the Sinai settlements were not a fundamental problem. In fact, one leading Egyptian official told TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn: "We suspect the Israelis are making so much of the Sinai settlements in order to establish the principle of settlements in the occupied territories-and later to apply that principle to the West Bank...
...Cairo talks opened in a mood of camaraderie, with both Weizman and Ga-massy expressing measured optimism about the outcome. "It's a long tunnel," Weizman remarked, "and for the moment we are only at the very beginning...