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This is a Central Intelligence Agency release of Foreign Broadcast Information Service coverage of the Middle East peace talks from December 1977. It collects British, Israeli and Soviet press and radio items on President as-Sadat's initiative and the planned Cairo conference. It also covers Prime Minister Begin's visit to London, Secretary of State Vance's regional tour and the Knesset debate on the peace plan. It contains no material on unidentified aerial phenomena.
“Cairo”42 pages
PPROVED FOR RELEASE CIA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS DIVISION AR 70-14 13NOV201 VII. 2 Dec 77 Q 2 UNITED KINGDOM DAILY TELEGRAPH PRAISES AS-SADAT'S STATESMANSHIP LD291151Y London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in English 29 Nov 77 p 18 LD [Editorial: "As-Sadat Keeps in Front"] - [Excerpts] President as-Sadat continues to make rings round all the other parties in- volved in the Middle East dispute. He seized, and has so far held, the moral, diplomatic and public relations initiative. When the more militant Arab states denounced him as atraitor for going on his historic visit to Jerusalem he countered by inviting all concerned to a meeting in Cairo next Saturday. Now that the dust is settling somewhat behind Mr as-Sadat's chariot three things seem clear. He has made a deep and most favourable impression on world public opinion as a statesman and a personality. Far from being torn to shreds by the outraged army andpopulace at home, he has been acclaimed. Finally, renewed war between Egypt and Israel seems, to say the least, to have become highly improbably, and without Egypt the others are hamstrung. These realisations may account for a milder tone in Mr al-Asad's references yesterday to Mr as-Sadat. Iraq and Jordan have started maneuvering. There need be no disappointment that Israelis foreign minister, Mr Dayan, will not after all be leading the Israeli delegation to Cairo-=still the~ only one to have accepted. That both sides should be represented only by senior officials evidently suits Egypt, which is still sensitive to accusations of seeking a separate peace. It is devoutly to be hoped how- ever that at this meeting Israel will make a bigger practical response than so far. Mr Raphael's moving article on this page on' the 30th anniversary of the United Nations resolution that led to the creation of the state of Israel makes her preoccupation with security highly understandable but surely the situation that has now developed represents such a radical change that a calculated political and psychological risk would bring security dividends. MIRV WARHEADS REPORTEDLY TURNED DOWN TO PLACATE USSR LD011149Y London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in English 1 Dec 77 p 4 LD [Article by Clare Hollingworth: "Britain's Warhead Plans Trimmed To Placate Russia"] [Text] Britain is planning to order from the United States a twin nuclear warhead 'for its Polaris missiles instead of taking up an option on the American MIRV multiple-headed, pre-targeted missle. This is part of the scheme Britain has conveyed to America to ensure the maintenance of the British independent nuclear deterrent. I understand that Britain has decided in principle to replace the Polaris missile war- head with one carying two nuclear warheads of the same weight, which, like a shotgun, would cause far greater damage. The'government apparently turned down MIRV warheads--multiple independently targetted re-entry vehicles--on the grounds that to increase the number of nuclear warheads from the current 32 on two Polaris submarines to something over 300 would upset Russia. In' fact, they have suggested two instead of the more normal three warheads on the newmissile they hope to acquire.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 65 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.