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Sadat's proposal evoked anger among Israeli officials. Interior Minister Yosef Burg, who is also Jerusalem's chief negotiator at the stalled talks on Palestinian autonomy, called it "a complete contradiction to the spirit of Camp David." For that matter, the P.L.O. evinced no excitement about the idea. Farouk Kaddoumi, the P.L.O.'s unofficial foreign minister, called the time "inopportune" for such a government, adding that "we do not place any trust in Sadat." American analysts interpreted Sadat's proposal as an attempt "at keeping all the options open" that offered little chance of immediate success...
...Carter Administration was relieved to have the negotiations back on some kind of track, even though little if anything will be accomplished in the next round of talks. Israel's chief negotiator, Interior Minister Yosef Burg, denied that he had any new proposals to make. In private, Egyptian diplomats gloomily conceded that they saw no hope of progress until after the U.S. elections...
Even though he had been the one to break off the negotiations last month, Sadat was anxious that talks resume among the three negotiators: Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali, Israeli Interior Minister Yosef Burg, and U.S. Special Envoy Sol Linowitz. Sadat still had plenty of misgivings about the Israelis, and he demanded last week that they stop setting "preconditions or faits accomplis." Translation: he remained upset about Israeli demands that the future of Jerusalem should not be discussed, and angry that the Israelis were forging ahead with plans for more Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank...
...Yosef H. Yerushalmi, chairman of the Near Eastern Languages and Civilization Department, announced that he will leave Harvard to direct the Columbia University Center for Israel and Jewish Studies and become the Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society...
...increase does not total 15 because several already approved Core courses--including those to be taught by Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education, Michael Walzer, professor of Government, and Yosef H. Yerushalmi, professor of Hebrew and of Jewish history, who are all leaving--have been cancelled...