THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, July 13, 1979

Sadat Will Visit Israel for August Summit Sessions

(Continued from Page 1)
Egypt. The negotiations
over Palestinian autonomy,
which had their fourth ses-
sion in Alexandria last
week, were mentioned only
in passing at the press con-
ference and only in reply to
questions. Begin and Sadat
apparently are content to
leave negotiations to the
lower echelons on both
sides. It was agreed when
the autonomy talks ad-
journed last Thursday to set
p several "working com-
.iittees" on an agenda and
other issues. That agree-
ment was reached under the
prodding of U.S. envoy
Robert Strauss.
Both Begin and Sadat
said they agreed that the in-
tegrity of Lebanon shohldbe

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preserved. Sadat appears to
have brought up Israeli air
raids against Palestinian
terrorist strongholds in
Lebanon during their con-
versations.
At the press conference,
however, he made no
comment when Begin
said the raids were an act
"of absolute, legitimate
self-defense."
Sadat made it clear that
he would not be deterred
from his present course by
opposition in most of the
rest of the Arab world to the
Egyptian-Israeli peace
process. When he was asked
about Egypt's position in
the Third World at a time
when many Arab countries
are pressing for its ouster
from various international
forums, Sadat replied: "We
are launched on a way from
which we will never go back
. . . Let us see what Egypt
can do without the Arab
world and what the Arab
world can do without
Egypt."
The joint press conference
at the Ras a-Tin palace in
effect ended the political
talks. Begin toured Alexan-
dria Wednesday afternoon
and attended a dinner that
night hosted by Egyptian
Prime Minister Mustapha
Khalil. He flew back to Is-
rael Thursday.
The Israelis and Egyp-
tians cast a veil of secrecy
over the talks.
Observers saw little
prospect of any substan-
tial developments emerg-
ing from this round of
talks. It was understood
that at this stage at least,
the importance of
Begin-Sadat meeting was
the fact that it was held

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during the interim be-
tween. the negotiating
sessions on autonomy.
An understanding ap-
parently exists between
the two leaders to keep
the consultations be-
tween them parallel. to
the negotiations at a
lower level. It appears by
Tuesday night that
neither of them was aim-
ing toward any specific
end at this time.

Their conversations were
interrupted only twice
Tuesday — once when the
president's wife, Mrs. Jehan
Sadat, came to pay her re-
spects to Begin and again
when Sadat's two .daugh-
ters, one with a new-born
infant, did the same and
posed for pictures with the
two leaders. Tuesday night
Begin and Sadat attended a
festive dinner in the gar-
dens where they were joined
by Khalil, Vice President
Hosni Mubarak, Sadat's
bureau chief Hassan Kamel
and the governor of Alexan-
dria, Dr. Fuad Hilmi. Ex-
changes of views continued
at the dinner with current
political matters in-
terspersed with such topics
as the historical back-
ground of Alexandria, its
importance in Jewish his-
tory and in other cultures.

During the autonomy
talks last week, Israel's
chief negotiator, Dr. Yosef
Burg, once again stressed
the Israeli view that a
political-ideological debate
on aims and objectives was a
sure recipe for paralysis. He
said that Israel would be
prepared, in principle, to
discuss the Egyptian pro-
posal for a declarative
agenda — but only on the
clear understanding that
this meant reopening the
Camp David "framework,"
since Israel regarded many
of Egypt's suggested points
as contravening the letter
or spirit of the "framework."
Khalil maintained that
the 17 points which he had
suggested at Herzliya a
week earlier as components

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Levi, one of the few Italian
Jewish concentration camp
survivors, well-known for
his novels and his personal
account of Nazi horrors in
the documentary work, "If
This Be a Man," has won
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broad theme of man versus
technology and zooms in on
the mechanized existence of
a factory worker. The title
refers to a tool used in the
factory production line.
This is Levi's first novel on a
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of an agenda did not con-
travene or go beyond the
Camp David "framework"
— but were merely an elab-
oration of it.
But the Israeli position
received the powerful
and energetic support of
Strauss who said he
would not want to chal-
lenge Khalil's argument
— but he was by nature
an "active negotiator"
and believed in frontal
assault on the specifics of
the issues. He therefore
recommended that the
talks focus on the
specifics — for if they
were sidetracked into
ideology and philosophy,
they could go. on for two
years, not one.
Strauss said expressly
that he was against having
an agenda altogether — and
it was plain that his pro-
posal to set up "working
groups" was intended to
ease Egypt's way towards
shelving its demand for a
declarative agenda at this
stage.
Strauss had already out-
lined his proposal to Burg in
a private meeting before the
formal Thursday morning
session began, and the ini-
tial Israeli reaction was pos-
itive. The Egyptian team
also indicated their agree-
ment to the principle of
working groups as soon as
Strauss raised the subject:
presumably he had dis-
cussed it privately in ad-
vance with Khalil, too.
Strauss' deportment, and
the position he took on the
agenda, clearly pointed, a
senior Israeli negotiator
said, to his determination to
achieve progress — and
achieve it fast.
Last week, former U.S.
Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger said in Israel
that King Hussein of Jor-
dan is not bent on a mili-
tary confrontation with
Israel. Kissinger re-
turned to Israel after vis-
iting Amman and
Riyadh, Saudi Arabis.
Speaking at -a press con-
ference, he said the fact
that Hussein is receiving
Strauss means that the
purpose is to "explore

what possibilities exist
for negotiations, other-
wise it wouldn't make
any sense."
Asked if Saudi Arabia
was linking oil supplies to
the autonomy talks, the
American diplomat said "I
would hate to think that our
position in these negotia-
tions depends on expecta-
tions of the supply of oil." He
agreed completely with
what Strauss said in Cairo,
rejecting oil blackmail.
Strauss was quoted as say-
ing that the U.S. will not
talk with the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization under
pressure from the oil-
producing Arab nations.
"On the other hand," Kis-
singer added, "I must say
that this was not a threat
that was made to me while I
was in Saudi Arabia. The
two issues were not brought
into connection while I was
there. The issue of energy
and the issue of problems
here should be dealt with as
separate problems.
"I would have thought
that Saudi Arabia would
understand that its own
position depends on stable
world economy. There is
enough to talk about in the
energy field without linking
it to other issues."
Kissinger said there
could be no change in the
attitude toward the PLO
until it accepted Security
Council Resolution 242 and
Israel's right to exist.

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