THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6 Friday, March 21, 1980
Summit Sessions Next Month
Will 'Review' Autonomy Talks
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gress in the autonomy talks
has come to a halt and that
the May 26 goal may not be
reached, the White House
spokesman pointed out,
"These are meetings in sup-
port of the ongoing negotia-
tions" and that it is "a
different situation than
what we faced in the sum-
mer of 1978" when "there
was no framework for dis-
cussions, very little agree-
ment on any issues and no
peace" between Egypt ,and
Israel.
Powell suggested to re-
porters that they should not
lean in the direction that
the upcoming meetings are
a "process" toward summit
meetings between the three
leaders. "These meeting are
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not to replace the negotiat-
ing process but to support
the existing process," he
said.
He emphasized several
times that the talks have
not been deadlocked.
Asked if they were
stalled, Powell said, "No,
I won't agree with that
characterization." He
said the talks in Washing-
ton "are not related" to
the United Nations Secu-
rity Council's anti-Israel
resolution of March 1
which the U.S. supported
and which President
Carter later repudiated.
He said the meetings
have been under discus-
sion "at least a couple of
weeks" but the invita-
tions were "formally" ex-
tended Tuesday by
President Carter, who
spoke to Sadat and Be-
gin.
In another development,
it was disclosed that
President and Mrs. Carter
will host a reception at the
White House this Sunday to
observe the first anniver-
sary of the Egyptian-Israeli
peace treaty which was
signed in Washington last
March 2.
Some 700 guests have
been invited, including
delegations from the Egyp-
tian and Israeli embassies.
This is about half the
number that attended the
treaty-signing celebrations
a year ago.
Observers noted that both
the announcement of the
Sadat and Begin visits in
April and the reception
came on the eve of the cru-
cial New York Presidential
primaries to be held next
Tuesday. The treaty cele-
bration will take place three
days before the actual an-
niversary date.
Another matter of
interest to White House
observers is that
President Carter is ex-
pected to announce in the
near future the member-
ship of the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Council which
will consider recom-
mendations by the
President's Holocaust
Commission of last Oc-
tober for a suitable
Holocaust memorial.
In Jerusalem, Foreign
Minister Yitzhak Shamir
said Wednesday that he in-
tended to take an active
part in the autonomy
negotiations. He also said
that May 2 is not the final
date for completion of the
talks but merely a desired
date.
Shamir's remarks echoed
those of Begin, who stressed
in a speech in Maalot on
Tuesday that the May 2
target date set in the Camp
David accords was not a
deadline. Begin noted that
it had taken six months,
rather than the targeted
three, to negotiate the
Egyptian-Israeli peace
treaty and similarly the au-
tonomy talks could proceed
for as long as it takes to
reach agreement.
These comments by
Shamir and Begin appeared
intended to prepare the pub-
lic for the all-but-certain
prospect that the autonomy
talks will not be completed
by May 2.
Interior Minister Yosef
Burg, Israel's chief
negotiator in the au-
tonomy talks, told the
Knesset's Foreign Affairs
and Security Committee
that neither Egypt nor
the U.S. objected to his
proposal to speed up the
negotiations. Burg
suggested over the
weekend that the top-
level autonomy team
meet on a weekly basis
instead of about once a
month as has been the
case until now.
Burg made his pro-
posal in response to
Egyptian charges that Is-
rael was responsibile for
the slow pace of the au-
tonomy talks. The chief
Egyptian negotiate,
Prime Minister MuL
tapha Khalil, was quoted
by the Cairo newspaper
Al-Gumhuriya as saying
that while Eygpt is not
opposed to speeding up
the negotiating process,
"the good intentions are
much more important
than the frequency and
the length of the au-
tonomy sessions.
In a newspaper interview
last Friday, Sadat
suggested that Israel was
dragging its feet in the
negotiations. He also
warned that if there is no
progress on autonomy by
the May 26 deadline, "a new
situation would arise." He
would not elaborate.
Another sign that
Israeli-Egyptian relations
were not running smoothly
less than a month after the
two countries exchanged
ambassadors was the
break-off in trade negotia-
tions.
The Egyptian delega-
tion left Israel without
reaching a trade agree-
ment. The parties de-
cided to continue their
talks but no time or place
were set.
The negotiations are con-
cerned with a customs
agreement, the transfer of
goods from one country to
the other and procedures for
issuing import and export
licenses.
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NY, SF Rallies for Wallenberg
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according to Mrs. An-
nette Lantos, of Hill-
sborough, Calif., one of
the chief organizers of
U.S. efforts in behalf of
Wallenberg. Mrs. Lantos,
in a telephone interview
with the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency, said that
efforts are being made to
organize demonstrations
in Los Angeles, Chicago,
Boston and Toronto.
Noting that Wallenberg
was arrested by the Rus-
sians Jan. 17, 1945, three
days after the Red Army
marched into Bucharest,
Mrs. Lantos said that 35
years later the Soviet Union
should admit it made a mis-
take and release him. She
said what Wallenberg did in
rescuing Jews was "a heroic
act of salvation" which dur-
ing the Nazi period was
"tragically rare."
Wallenberg was sent to
Hungary in 1944 by the
Swedish government at the
request of the U.S.. to help
rescue Hungarian Jews.
When the Russian troops
moved into Budapest he was
arrested and disappeared.
Soviet officials long denied
that he was in their custody
but in 1957 they said he died
in a prison in 1947. How-
ever, in recent years several
Jewish prisoners have re-
ported seeing a Swedish
prisoner and Wallenberg is
the only known Swede to
have been arrested by the
USSR. Wallenberg is a
University of Michigan
graduate.
Mrs. Lantos was one of
the Hungarian Jews re-
scued by Wallenberg. She
was then 12 years old.
Her husband, Tom Lan-
tos, a professor at San
Francisco State Univer-
sity, was also a teenager
in Hungary at the time.
Mrs. Lantos told the JTA
that she believed Wallen-
berg dead until 31/2 years
ago when the first report
reached the West that the
Swedish diplomat was in a
Soviet prison camp. She
said since then she has "de-
voted" herself to efforts to
gain Wallenberg's freed ,-
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