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U.S. ‘facilities’
Begin, Sadat review strategic policit
by David Landau
ASWAN (JTA)—Monday
night Prime Minister Menachem
Begin and President Anw*r Sadat
launched into their summit
discussions. Sadat unexpectedly
keeping his top defense and foreign
policy aides at Jund for easy
consultation.
Defense Minister Kamal Hassan
AH and Acting Foreign Minister
Butros Ghali had come to Aswan
to take part in a top-level strategic
policy review with Sadat, Prime
Minuter Mustapha Khalil and
other high state and party officials
earlier. Unknown to the Israeli
side, Ali and Ghali were asked to
stay on for the summit tajks. Then-
presence underscored the
importance attached to strategic
.issues-^notahly Iran and
at this summit.
regard. (t .
He said the “facilities'* would be
made available to the U.S. to
support an action against Iran if
that action were designed to rescue
the hostages, not to occupy Iran.
This made concrete Sadat's pledge
last week that Egypf would, in
, support direct American
i bn such conditions.
Begin said before leaving for
Aswan that he was hot troubled
over reports that the United State*
has been given facilities at aa
Egyptian air bate and observed it
was only natural that the' U.S.
should seek such facilities in
Eg^pt, Israel and otter csmwtries
in view of events in Iran and.
Afghanistan. K
It was reported * We<i|fcsday
morning that the UmUd Stales has
begun joint air force exercises with
Egypt. According to admttnstrs-
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was the centra) message of Begin's
public remarks at a dinner bore
ft ’owing the first working session
of his summit with Sadat.
“Thank God," said Begin,
“Israel and Egypt are on the side of
right, not Wrong; justice, not its
opposite; freedom, not slavery" in
the face of these two setbacks in the
West. But there was no indication
Americans hold “training’
exercises with Egyptians
by Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Arherican aircraft are engaged in
“training" exercises with Egyptian.,airmen at the West Air Base in Cairo,
the State Department said Tuesday. The Department's chief spokesman.
Nodding Carter, refused to comment as to whether the U.S. aircraft were
reconnaissance planes. But he emphasized that they were there for
training purposes with the Egyptian Air Force.
State Department sources also said that “possibly” additional U.S.
aircraft will go to Egypt. The sources said they were “not aware* that the
American planes may have down over Sinai or made any use of the Israeli
facilities on the peninsula. This is the first time American aircraft have
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from either Begin or Sada C>
aides, that the shared
would express itself in specific
operational terms in the immediate
future.
On the bilateral issues between
the two countries, it was Sadat
who set the tone in his after-dinner
comments when he said that “We
have overcome in the past much
mote difficulties than we are facing
now," •», -...
The two leaders seemed relaxed
and at ease in each other's
company during a dinner given by
the Sadafs for the Begins at the
Israeli Prime Minister's hotel.
They exchanged butter freely, and
even at moments when the
conversation stalled, there was
none of the fidgety awkwardness
-between them that characterized
their earlier encounters.
At their 50-minute meeting the
came
denying to reporters at the airport
the Israeli television report that the
U.S. is pfuttihp up a military base in
Egypt. Ali said Egypt would not be
prepared to have an-American
base on its soil though it would
extend to the U.S. “facilities* for
American forces. Ali raamtmined
that no approach had yet been
made by Washington in this
crises in Iran and Afganistan, the
U.S. is seemingly trying for closer
ties wifb%ypt, its strongest ally in
the Moslem world.
Israeli-Egyptian agreement on
the issue* involved in the Iranian
and Afghanistan crises should
serve as “a foundation of good will,
cooperation and understanding on
which we shall build in the future,"
Monday. Egyptian Defense Minister Kama! Hassan Ali said the U.S.
could -use “Egyptian facilities." In connection wifll the joint U.S.-
Egyptian exercises, he staled that “We have been discussing the question
of facilities with the United States." He said the exercises were aimed at
training Americans in thefise of those facilities. Earlier. President Anwar
Sadat offered Egyptian facilities to the U.S. but not bases '-to enable
the rescue of American hostages in Teheran' and to protect Arab
countries against aggression.
detailed review of the outstanding
bilateral questions: autonomy and
normalization. But it seemed clear
already that when they do take up
the bilateral matters, Begin and
Sadat will seek to avoid
confrontation, and will resort once
more to the device of “agreeing to
disagree" on issues still in dispute.
Tanenbaum will deliver
MLKing keynote address
‘ChaP group ia best
Daniel Epstein (left), president of “Ctial" USY of Ahavath
Achim Synagogue, receives Best Chapter Award from
Jeremy Fingernan, United Synagogue Youth international
preakfont, at the annual ll$Y International Convention held
recently in Port Chester, N. Y. The "Chai" group of eight-12th
graders was recognized for ha outstanding educational,
cultural, and religious programming, and its creative
commitment to the Jewish community from among chapters
throughout (he United States. England, Canada and Israel.
Also pictured afe (left to right), Mitchell Kopetman,
Southeast regional president; Diaha Bedotin. regional
secretary; I.J. Rosenberg and Arthur Haber, chapter
members; Alan Teperow, program director; and’ Harold r
Wisnna, regional director.
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Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum,
national director of ieterreligious
affairs Of the American Jewish
Committee, has been invited by
Mrs. Coretta Scott King, to deliver
the keynote address at gn
ecumenical service commemora
ting the life and the work of the tide
Dr. Mwtin Lutber King Jr.
The service will be held on
Tuesday, Jan. IS, at Ebeneser
Baptist Church, as part of a week-
long obecrvance of Dr. King's 51st
birthday.,
William B. Schwartz III. AJCs
Atlanta Chapter interreligious
affairs commission chairperson,
urges members of the Jewish
community to attend tfte service,
noting that tbiajt believed to bo (he
first time that a national Jewish
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them," he added. ' •
Named “one of the ten moat
respected and influential religious
leaders ia America" by the nation's
religious writers in 1978, Marc
Tatienbaum was one of the first
American clergymen to speak out
on behalf of the Indo-Chinese boot
people. The conservative rabbi yras
program chairman of the first
National Conference on Religion
and Race in 1963..
The seven day celebration of Dr.
King's birthday, sponsored by the
Martin Luther King Jr. Center for
Social Change will also
the participants.
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