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...year has passed since President Anwar Sadat and Premier Menachem Begin signed the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty on the north lawn of the White House. This week Sadat returns to Washington for another round of talks with President Carter, to be followed a week later by one with Begin. The purpose of these separate encounters: to keep the faltering peace process alive by making some headway on the complicated and emotional question of self-determinationor "autonomy," as the Camp David accords put it, with deliberate ambiguityfor the West Bank and Gaza...
...early days, we Jews were in search of our national identity. Now the Palestinians are going through the same search for their national identity. The only foreseeable solution is a territorial compromise." So says Elkana Galli, a former adviser to Israel's first Premier, David Ben- Gurion...
...over the next ten years. Instead, even though the referendum was not constitutionally binding, the government is now obliged to move forward with a national plan to continue developing nuclear energy for at least another 25 years. Still sporting his NO, THANK YOU button after the vote, Centrist Premier Thorbjörn Falldin went on national television. "I remain personally opposed to nuclear power," he said. "But my conscience is not the decisive factor. Swedes have spoken, and I am pledged to carry out their will...
Accordingly, Stockholm plunged enthusiastically into nuclear power in 1972, and within five years, under Premier Olof Palme, Sweden was leading the world in its per capita use. In 1976, however, Palme's Social Democrats were unseated for the first time in 44 years, and successive governments have been alternately for and against nuclear energy...
...name was familiar, but his American hosts had trouble with the pace. In three weeks, erudite, easygoing Ze'ev Binyamin Begin, 37, son of Israel's Premier, managed flying visits to 20 U.S. campuses on a private, expenses-only trip to bring "the message of Israel" to students and, it was hoped, offset what his countrymen see as rising anti-Israel sentiment among American youth. "People don't have to agree with the Israeli government," conceded Begin, "but I think we have a valid position." Binyamin is a geologist (with a Ph.D. from Colorado State University...