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FBIS Coverage of the Middle East Peace Talks: 1977 December

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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.

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P 120715Z DEC 77
FM FBIS TEL AVIV
TO RUTLAAA/FBIS WASRDC
RUDGMKA/sBIS LONDON
RUE.PGA/VOA WASHDC-
RUDOMLA/PBIS CAVERSRAM/DW
RUDOMKD/FBIS NICOSIA
RUQMIF/FBiS AMMAN
RUQMIF/AMEMB AMMAN
RUEHEY/AMEMB CAIRO
RUQMDM/AMEMB DAMASCUS
RUQMJR/AMCONGEN JERUSALEM
RUQMZN/S!NAI SUPPORT MISSION
RUDONBA/CINCUSNAVEUR N"2
.RUSNAAA/USCINCEUR
RUFRBAA/COMIDEASTFQR
RHFRAAB/CINCUSAFE IIRO RAMSTEII A. GERMANY
RUFDAAA/USAREUR DEP COFS INTEL HEIpELBERG
RUFRMAA/COMSIXTHFLT
R ''gHQA/COMIPAC HONOLULU HI
R .. RRA/USNMR SHAPE
ZEN/AMEMB TEC AVIV
FBTA
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UNCLAS BBC DW NC
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ATTN SHAPEi PASS TO SURVEY SECTION IMMEDIATELY
CORRECTI0N
TA12071S TAKE 2 OF TA1207V.i4IBNGIN VANCE FILS
JERUSALEM DOMESTIC TELEVISION HEBREW 111935 XXX DELTING INDISTINCT
QUESTION.
REF TA11B15Y TAKE B OF 4 TAlI 7 33Y--BEGIN VANCE PRESS CONFERENCE,
SUBSTiTUTE FOLLOiIjNG FOR REF YAKE TWO IN ITS ENTIR TY; XXR((TEXT)) ((QUESTION)) MR SECRETARY, IS IT PQ&S$8%E THAT YOUCAN GET THE OTHER PARTIES THAT MR BEGIN JUST MENTIbN10 TO
pTICIPATE AFTER AN INTERVALS PERHAPS AFTER THE ,IRST OF THEcAR, WHEN THE CAIRQ CONFERENCE MIGHT POSSIBLY TiKE ANOTHER
LEVEL OR. DIMENSION?
((VANCE)) I THINR IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THESE OTMER COUNTRIESMAY DECIDE AT SOME pOINT TO JOIN THE PEACE PROCES5 AS THE PRIMEMINISTER SAID, ALL OF 'US HOPE THAT THIS WILL BE THECASE.AND WE WiLL CONTINUE TO URGE THAT THEY KEEP AN OPEN MIND AtiD IDN
THE PEACE PROCESS AND TRY AND HEIP IN ACHIEVING THE COMMON G05AL
WHICH ALI Ot US SHARE BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE THAT THiEY TOWANT PEACE:
(UQUESTION INDISTINCT))
((VANCE) I THINE THAT WE MUst PRQCEED WITH THg CAIRO CONPERENCEAND SEE WHAT HAPPENS AS WE G0 ALONG THAT ROAD. THE PEACE pR CESS ISA CONTINUING PROCE$S AND "HRPEFILCY, AT SOME POINT THE OTHERS WILL
JOIN.
(QUESTIONj) MR PRIME MINISTER, YOU SAID THNER t$Ei RESAtATOBE OPfIMISTIC. WHAT CAUSE DO YOU HAVE FQR G 10IMSM?
((BEGINf KNOWLEDGE OF THE FACTS, IT GIVES ME REASON TOBE PTIM STIC.
((QUESTION INDISTINCT))
((BEGIN)) WE SHALL FIND ANOTHR OCCASItON BUT I REPEAT NgDI'D LIKE TO SAYJ THE SECRETARY WILL ALSO CONFIRM IT, THIS IS FOR:

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