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...Sooner or later we shall be signing an agreement." Later would appear to be a stronger bet. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced last week that the slow-moving talks would resume at an unspecified date. But the issue of linkage-that is, relating Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula to political changes for the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip-remains a major stumbling block...
...troops and the role of United Nations forces, and Israeli navigation rights in the Gulf of Suez. Egypt and Israel had also reached a meeting of minds on the future of two Israeli-built airbases in Sinai and the number and size of Egyptian fortifications in the desert peninsula...
...draft of the treaty, consisting of nine articles and a preamble, had been sent to Jerusalem and Cairo for study and approval. Negotiating work would continue this week on three annexes dealing with such issues as the exact dates of Israel's military withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula and the sale of Egyptian oil to Israel...
...centuries before the Israelis captured the Sinai during the Six-Day War of 1967, the 24,000-sq.-mi., arrowhead-shaped peninsula (twice the size of Belgium) was pretty much a forgotten wasteland. As late as 1967, its population was only about 50,000, including 10,000 Bedouins and perhaps 40,000 Palestinians and Egyptians who lived in the town of El Arish near the Israeli border. The Egyptians, who have had a somewhat vaguely defined sovereignty over the area since 1906, developed some oilfields in the Sinai, but for the most part they preferred to preserve...
...years of Israeli occupation of the peninsula have heightened the Egyptians' sense of loss. As a "last mission," President Anwar Sadat dreams of building a shrine on Mount Sinai at which Christians, Jews and Muslims can pray together. And now that Israel has agreed in principle to withdraw, Egyptian planners are busy drawing up ambitious schemes for transforming the Sinai into a rich national asset. In addition to oil exploration, mining and tourism, the government has plans for reclaiming 700,000 acres of land in the northwestern Sinai by piping in water from the Nile...