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...precious." Syria's participation in any talks with Israel seems remote, but Congress provided a bit of bait by approving $90 million in foreign aid for Damascus if President Carter attests that the aid would help the peace process. Israel also contributed something. From Jerusalem came a calculated leak that Dayan had told his aides that "neither the Sinai nor the Golan Heights is part of our homeland...
...happening at the bargaining tables. After advocating "open diplomacy" in his election campaign and first months in office, Carter proved himself a master of the old-fashioned art of secret negotiations. He even managed to get silence from the often leak-prone Israelis. Premier Begin, for example, told his colleagues in Jerusalem by telephone that he could not say much about the talks because Carter had asked him not to. When Defense Minister Weizman was asked by newsmen how the Israelis were doing, he cryptically responded: "We are doing...
...press and from the outside world ... without the necessity of political posturing or defense of a transient stand or belief." The President was not kidding. The news blackout at Camp David was so effective that one television reporter likened the press corps to "350 plumbers in search of a leak...
...Camp followers, nary a leak to plug...
...crucial detail midway through this review because it's only at that point in the book that the reader discovers it. By that time, a number of outrages have occurred to rattle Castle's conscience and force him to put his sacred private life on the line. Suspecting a leak but collaring the wrong man, his superiors in the BSS have prematurely liquidated the man who shares Castle's office, a lonely but likeable fellow named Darvis. "C," the chief of operations, has also asked Castle unadvisably to be the British liaison in a fanciful (or perhaps not so fanciful...