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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.
MSGNO 154 (FBXX) CRN *14/112/77* *Di4f* . PPROV I LTI(la 2Ik0RObdNJV AM43NO 1 P 1512062 DE 'nifIA FM FBIS. TEL TO RUTLAAA/FBIS WASDC RUEBFGA/VOA WASHDC RUDOMKD/FBIS NICOSIA RUQMIF/FBIS AMMAN ZEN/AMEMB TEL AVIV F BTA BT UNCLAS N /fff EZ2i ISRAEL= 0 HAVE SEVERAL TACKS WITH CARTER, MAY MEET ASUSADAT TA151206Y TEL AVIV MA'ARIV IN HEBREW t5 DEC 77 PP 1, 2 TA ((BY GAVRI'EL STRASSMAN, NAARIV CORRESPONDENT ACCOMPANYING THE PRIME MINISTER)) ((EXCERPT)) IT IS POSSIBLE THAT PRIME MINISTER BEGTN AND PRESIDENT CARTER WIlL MEET TWO OR THREE TIMES IN THE COURSE OF THE PRESENT VISIT TO WASHINGTON, 1NIF WE 0 NOT CONCLUDE D''CUSSING ALL THE POINTS THAT REQUIRE CCARIFICATION4 AND E, MINATION IN 0UR MEETING ON FRiDAY MORNING," THE PRIME MINISTER TOLD THE MAIARIV CpRRESPONDENT DURING THE FLIGHT ((TO THE l,S-FBIS)) FROM ISRAEL, "WE WILL HOLD A SECOND MEETINGS MAYBE ON THE SAME DAY, IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE THAT AN ADDITIONAL MEETING WiLL BE HELD ON MONDAY." FROM OTHER SOURCES IN NEW YORK THE MAIARIV CORRESPONDENT LEARNED THAT IT IS POSSIBLE THAT ONE OF THE ADDITIONAL TALKS WILL BE HELD IN THE PRESIDENT.S RESIDENCE AT CAMP DAVIOp POSSIBLY ON SUNDAY, AND THAT IF ANOTHER MEETING IS NEEDED IT WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY. THEREFORE, IT SEEMS THAT TFE PRIME MINISiER AND HIS ENTOURAGE WILL, NOT RETURN TO ISRAEL BEFORE TUESDAY, 20 DECEMBER, MR BEGIN ADDED TRAT IT IS POSSIBLE--FUR THE TIME BEING THIS IS A MERE POSSIBILITY AND NOThING HAS BEEN CONCLUQEDA.THAT ON THE WAY TO ISRAEL HE WILL STOP IN LONDON FOR A FEW HOURS AND MEET WITH BRITAIN'S PRIME MINISTER, JAMES CALLAGHAN, MR BEGIN ALSO SAID THiT !IT IS POSSIBCE THAT THERE WILL BE ANOTHER MEETING BETWEEN PRESIDENT AS-SADAT AND MYSELF SOON'" THE IMPRESSION OF TRE MAtARIV CORRESPONDENT WAS THAT I E IS TALKING OF SOMETHING VERY REAL, (AUTHORiTATIVE POLITICAL SQURCES IN JERUSALEM ASSESS THAT THE MEETING WILL BE HELD IN THE COMING DAYS, DURING THE PRIME MINISTER'S PRESENT TRIP BUT NOT IN THE UNITED STATES. IT WAS CONFIRMED IN CAIRO THAT IN AN INTERVIEW WITH U,S TELEVISIN.a AS.SADAT SAID THAT HE WAS INDEED INVItID TO VISIT THE UNITED STATES BUT NO DATE HAS BEEN DETERMINEDO ((PASSAGE OMITTED)) 15 DEC YB/LINDENAU/SM 15/1a21Z DEC BT #0685 NNNN RTTUZYUW NNDD DISSEMINEESC CRN
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