LOOKING BACK WHAT TO DO WHEN MOM OR DAD IS MORE THAN JUST FORGETFUL? The Answer Is A Decade Later: The Cold Peace Holds CANTERBURY LANE at PEACHWOOD INN HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent A Special Care Unit for Alzheimer's Patients Canterbury Lane offers programs and activities for adults suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and other related disorders in a caring, secure and beautiful setting. In this home environ- ment, innovative programming en- courages each resident to maintain as much independence as possible. • 24 hour supervised care • Individualized attention by staff specially trained to respond to each resident's needs • Focused activities to help prevent wandering • Relearning of familiar skills • Medical care by physicians and licensed nurses • Guidance in dressing, eating and personal hygiene • Recreational, Social and Educational activities • Music and Pet Therapy • Day Trips Canterbury Lane has innovative, supervised programs 24 hours daily. 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South Blvd. (313) 852.7800 Minutes From Downtown Birmingham KOSHER MEALS AVAILABLE 20 FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1989 SOUTH BLV D SOUAR BLOOMFIELD HILLS UN I - 75 TROY 2 LUG BEAVER 16 MILE BIRMINGHAM BEVERLY HILLS ROYAL OAK FERNDALE ust ten years ago — on March 26, 1979 — Pres- ident Jimmy Carter, President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin gathered before 1,50.0 spectators on the front lawn of the White House to sign a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. For Begin, it was the third most significant day of his life, after the establishment of the Jewish state and the reunification of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War. For the overwhelming ma- jority of Israelis, it was simp- ly a moment of sublime deliverance: Israel, under threat of war since its foun- ding 30 years earlier, was finally breaking out of its claustrophobic cage, making peace with its largest, most powerful enemy. The unalloyed joy was also pregnant with promise. Israel would, for the first time, have normal relations with a neighboring state: open borders, trade opportunities, cultural and scientific ex- changes, agricultural cooperation. Moreover, after Egypt had done the unthinkable and broken what President Sadat had described as the "psychological barrier," it seemed that nothing was im- possible; that nothing could stop the bandwagon of peace. Given this new reality, other moderate Arab states would surely adjust their political vision, accept the fact of Israel's existence and follow the Egyptian example. Those few Israelis who were skeptical of Egypt's inten- tions — who believed that President Sadat's signature on the peace treaty was no more than • a tactical ploy designed to regain the Sinai Desert and improve Egypt's overall strategic position — were regarded as party- poopers, their voices drowned out in the euphoric hoopla. In fact, neither the pro- phesy of a Golden Age nor that of doom and disaster have been vindicated. The reality lies trapped uncomfor- tably somewhere in between. On the one hand, Egypt has reaffirmed its commitment to an older treaty which obligates it to join other Arab states who consider themselves threatened, thus holding open the door to the possibility that it will join j some future Arab war coali- tion against Israel. On the other, 10 years after the signing on the White House lawn, after both Presi- dent Sadat and Prime Minister Begin have left the scene, the peace treaty re- mains intact. It does, to be sure, remain an empty vessel, devoid of content and substance, but Israel's deep disappointment at the lack of warmth is tempered by the knowledge that, having been tested in a fiery crucible, the treaty has survived at all. This disillusionment was compounded last week when Israel returned Taba, the bit- The single factor that unites all three disparate groups in Egypt is their opposition to the peace treaty. terly contested sliver of Red Sea beach, to Egyptian sovereignty. Taba, President Hosni Mubarak had insisted, was "holy Egyptian soil" and, not- withstanding the peace trea- ty, there could not be a full normalization of relations un- til Israel handed back this last scrap of the Sinai Desert. The day after the formal transfer, however, Egypt an- nounced a fresh claim to sovereignty: the Coptic sec- tion of the of the Ho- ly Sepulcher, traditional site of the crucifixion of Jesus, in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem. According to Dr. Rafi Israeli, a leading Middle East specialist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the state of relations between Jerusalem and Cairo a decade after the signing of the peace treaty "is hardly what I was hoping for." "After making tremendous concessions, it is not the sort of unconditional peace I ex- pected," he told me. "To that extent I am deeply disap- pointed." He notes that there is vir- tually no trade between Egypt and Israel, and that whatever bilateral agree- ments exist between the two states have been accomplish- ed at Israel's initiative. While the border is open and more than 30,000 Israelis visited Egypt last year, there is no reciprocity as the Egyp- Continued on Page 22