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Jerusalem (JTA) — The first
round of high level talks between
Israel and Egypt ended in Cairo
over the weekend with progress
reported on some bilateral issues
but none in the dispute over Taba,
the strip of beach on the Gulf of
Aqaba claimed by both Israel and
Egypt.
The talks are expected to re-
sume early next month, in an Is-
rael locale. The heads of the Is-
raeli delegation, Foreign Minis-
try Director General David
Kimche and Gen. Avraham
Tamir, Director General of the
Prime Minister's Office, returned
•from Cairo Sunday. They had
been there since last Thursday,
pressing the Egyptians for a com-
promise on the machinery for set-
tling the Taba issue.
The 1979 Israel-Egypt peace
treaty prescribes conciliation and
arbitration of disputes between
the two countries which cannot be-
resolved through negotiations.
The Egyptians have been de-
manding that the Taba dispute be
submitted to international arbi-
tration with a deadline set in ad-
vance for a decision.
The Israelis are now proposing
a mixed process of conciliation
and arbitration which they con-
tend would be less costly and
time-consuming than arbitration
and would allow the mutually
agreed-upon arbitrator a greater
degree of flexibility.
What Israel apparently seeks is
a compromise decision on Taba
which_ will give neither country
all it demands, hopefully
eliminating the tensions that
could result from a decision that
fully favored one side over the
other. But the Egyptians remain
adamant in their insistence on
arbitration now.
Meanwhile, David Levy, De-
puty Prime Minister of Israel,
said in Montreal on Friday that
there is no way Israel will talk
with the PLO despite an offer by
Yassir Arafat to recognize the
Jewish state.
"Nothing proves that this group
will change it's ideology, it's poli-
tics or it's charter, which calls for
the destruction of the State of Is-
rael. Arafat is not a partner for
us," Levy said.
Levy reiterated the Israeli gov-
ernment policy that Jerusalem
will only discuss local Palestinian
autonomy in the West Bank with
Arabs not aligned with the PLO.
He rejected a proposal by King
Hussein of Jordan to create a
West Bank Palestinian state in
association with Jordan. Levy
was in Montreal to meet local
Jewish community leaders and
-school children.
In Washington, Deputy Secre-
tary of State Kenneth Dam pre-
dicted today that progress toward
peace in the Middle East can be
made this year.
"The United States shares the
view of the key players in the
region that 1985 can be a year of
opportunity, if the parties take
advantage of today's promising
conditions," Dam said in a speech
to the American Law Institute.
He noted that Secretary of State
George Shultz, in his recent visit
to Israel, Egypt and Jordan, found
"difficulties, but he also found a
positive atmosphere, a genuine
sense of movement, a widely
shared desire to see things move
forward, and an increasing sense
of the importance of finding a way
to get negotiations going." Dam
added that. when King Hussein of
Jordan meets with President Re-
agan here next week, this "will
provide yet another opportunity
to improve the prospects for
negotiations."
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At the Yad Eliahu. stadium in
Jerusalem (JTA) — President
Tel Aviv, delegations from 40
Chaim Herzog sent greetings
last week to Soviet leader countries gathered for the main
Mikhail Gorbachev and Britain's -ceremony marking the anniver-
Queen Elizabeth on the occasion sary.
of the 40th anniversary of the Al-
lied victory over Nazi Germany.
The message to Gorbachev said German Unity
London — The growing inter-
that the people of Israel will never
nal demand in Germany for
forget the role of the Red Army in
helping to defeat the Nazis and reunification is "of greater sig-
the help that it gave the victims nificance than the threat of neo-
Nazi groups in West Germany,"
who survived the Holocaust. In
his message to the Queen, Herzog says a study released by the World
noted the courage of the British Jewish Congress.
The study argues that the revi-
people in fighting the forces of
val of the debate on German
evil.
reunificaton spans the entire
In events last week marking
the defeat of Nazi Germany, Am- political spectrum and "should
bassador Niels Hanssen of West command greater attention" than
Germany laid a wreath at the Yad the neb-Nazi groups which are
carefully watched and kept in
Vashem Memorial.
"We Germans do not want to check by the authorities.
The far right have long seen
forget it, and we feel responsible
reunification as the only way
for it regardless of the genera-
tion," Hanssen said. "This is the Germany "can regain her self-
attitude not only of official Ger-
confidence" - the post-war agree-
many, of my government and the
ments were imposed on Germany
Federal President, but it is my
and are not binding, in their view.
conviction that this opinion is
They attack those who, they
shared by the overwhelming
claim, seek to "degrade German
majority of the Germans at large." history into a criminal process".