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...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...
...today. Let us take a break before lunch and make a small trip." Even the drivers and bodyguards had been given no warning of this excursion and had to scramble to their cars. Sadat ushered Begin into the front seat of a Cadillac and asked Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan to climb into the back. To everyone's surprise, Sadat got behind the steering wheel...
...they rode off with security forces in hot pursuit, Weizman remarked that he had never been personally driven by a head of state, and Begin mentioned he had never even bothered to learn to drive. Said Sadat: "It is a lot of fun, and I enjoy it very much." After sightseeing for a few minutes on Timsah Island, Sadat and his guests returned to Ismailia for lunch...
...Egyptian advance team arrived, some Israelis wondered whether the visit would actually take place: perhaps it was all a ruse to lull Israel into complacency. Among the skeptics was the army's chief of staff, Lieut. General Mordechai Gur, who defied a gag order from Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and gave an interview to the Hebrew daily Yedioth Aharonoth, in which he offered a "worst case" scenario. Gur suggested that Sadat was preparing to launch a surprise attack on Israeli-occupied Sinai, similar to the one that started the 1973 October War. The general warned all Israelis to be "cautious...
...brashness, Gur was reprimanded by Weizman (who later in the week was hospitalized with a broken ankle and bruises following a car accident). Top Israeli intelligence officials, however, shared Gur's concerns. They believe that Egypt has rebuilt fortifications and constructed new minefields in Sinai, stepped up military maneuvers across the Suez Canal, and carried out major exercises with the Russian-made SAM7 Strella missiles. In Washington, U.S. intelligence officials discounted the maneuver reports as "nothing new," and insisted that there had been no serious violations of the second Sinai accord reported by United Nations observers in the area...