Word: summits
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...town on the Suez Canal where Sadat met with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin last December; Israel wanted at least some of the talks to be held on its soil and suggested the Negev capital of Beersheba. Carter finally proposed Washington as a compromise. Shortly after the Camp David summit ended, the Egyptians suggested that talks might begin on Oct. 11-which is the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Remembering that Egypt had started the 1973 war on Yom Kippur, the Israelis refused. Washington tactfully proposed...
Despite its happy outcome, the Camp David summit produced one significant conflict between the U.S. and Israel that could cloud this week's Washington peace talks. The issue: For how long a period did the Israelis agree that they would not build new settlements in the West Bank and Gaza? According to Washington, President Jimmy Carter and Premier Menachem Begin agreed that the would be a freeze on new Jewish settlements during the period that the future status of the two occupied territories was being negotiated - in short, for at freeze five years. According to Jerusalem, Begin agreed that...
...Washington version. Before the summit President Carter compiles a list of 30 intractable discussion points. Near the top of the list are the West Bank settlements. Carter decides to limit discussions on this problem to avoid a stalemate. Not until the last night does he bring up the issue in detail...
...Jerusalem version. Carter, early in the summit, twice attempts to negotiate a freeze for an unlimited period on all new settlements. Begin calls this "totally unacceptable." The issue remains dormant for six days. Then Egyptian President Anwar Sadat suggests a three-month freeze, which Begin accepts as a way to establish "a good atmosphere" for the upcoming Sinai negotiations. The Israelis, however, insist that the agreement refers only to civilian and not to military (nahal) settlements. During the final four-hour 25-minute discussion at Aspen Lodge, which was attended by Carter, Begin, Vance, Barak and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe...
...return of refugees was worked out by Portuguese President Antonio Ramalho Eanes and Angolan President Neto last summer at a summit meeting in Guinea Bissau, another former African province of Lisbon. Until then, relations between Lisbon and Luanda had been virtually nonexistent because of Angola's expropriation of Portuguese property and Portugal's destruction of Angola's food-distribution system. At the meeting, Eanes and Neto agreed to exchange ambassadors, to settle the property issue and arrange for the voluntary return of refugees to Angola. It was later decided that the cost of repatriating the refugees would...