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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- ikm 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 VO LU -J — > OZx 3 2 O oQlu X o: £ oo —. LfJ 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. mmm 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 Dr. ft* fhe Of 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. Rosaly Moon i. ich there hat suffering and i tabor inrfufttrv ttMc mH V