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...meeting last night, decided to resubmit to the administration a proposal which calls for professors to hold make-up classes or provide tapes and transcripts of lectures given on religious holidays for students who miss class. The proposal was originally made three years ago when registration was held on Yom Kippur, Goldsmith said...
...three leaders meet alone. Begin blisters Sadat proposal, point by point. Keeps jabbing his finger at the paper in front of him. Begin accuses Sadat of purposely attacking while Israelis worshiped for Yom Kippur in 1973. Sadat, stung, calls the attack a "strategic deception." Retorts Begin: "It's still deception." Sadat and Begin keep interrupting each other, sometimes shouting. "Please let him finish, Mr. President," Carter pleads with Sadat during one exchange. Emotions subside after more than three hours. An Israeli later warns an American that Begin and Sadat should not meet for a while. Begin worries own delegation...
...hour before sunrise October 11. I'm usually awake by then and I plan to capture any ducks that are still sleeping in Quincy House at sunrise. As a punishment, I will then force them to go to my lectures and to take notes while I go to Yom Kippur services...
...Israel?a proposal that the Jerusalem government of Premier Golda Meir turned aside. The following year he abruptly evicted Soviet military advisers and experts from Egypt in a gesture toward the West that Washington failed to follow up. Then in October 1973 he caught Israel off guard with his Yom Kippur attack across the Suez. All these events, like his mission to Jerusalem, appear to have been dictated by a powerful and almost desperate internal logic...
...central action is the 1973 Yom Kippur war illustrated with film clips and battle noises that could be backdrops for any war at any time. A situation map might have been more helpful since the generals rush in every five or ten minutes asking Golda to choose from their conflicting advice as to what action to take on one front or another. More or less in the dark as to what is at stake, the average member of the audience feels as indecisive as Golda is made to seem...