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WITH HIS LATEST ROUND OF SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY IN ITS 14TH DAY, HAK TOLD NEWSMEN HIS TALKS WERE GOING "VERY WELL." BUT PUBLIC STATEMENTS FROM BOTH ISRAEL AND EGYPT HAVE SHOWN NO MOVEMENT TOWARD A COMPROMISE ON BASIC ISSUES IN DISPUTE. ...

HAK IS SAID TO BE WITHHOLDING "SHUTTLE" PLANS BEYOND THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS UNTIL HE PICKS UP THE CABINET'S COUNTERPROPOSALS TO SADAT'S UNDISCLOSED "SPECIFIC IDEAS AND CONSIDERATIONS."

WITHOUT DIVULGING DETAILS, U.S. OFFICIALS ABOARD HAK'S JET SAID THE GAP BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES REMAINS WIDE ALTHOUGH ISRAEL IS GIVING SADAT'S VIEWS SERIOUS CONSIDERATION.

ASKED WHETHER ISRAEL AND EGYPT WERE TRYING TO COMPROMISE THEIR DIFFERENCES, A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL REplied: "ABSOLUTELY."

HAK'S CALL ON FAISAL IS DESIGNED PRIMARILY TO BRING HIS INFLUENCE TO BEAR ON SYRIA, WHOSE CAPACITY FOR UPSETTING THE ALREADY WAVERING NEGOTIATIONS IS ALWAYS ON HAK'S MIND.

FAISAL'S INFLUENCE ON EGYPT IS NOT CONSIDERED SO PERVASIVE, ALTHOUGH IF HE CHOSE TO OPPOSE THE MISSION IT COULD BE DISRUPTIVE.

3. UPI - HAK HAS EXPRESSED REGRETS THAT HE NEGOTIATED THE VIET-NAM PEACE AGREEMENT FOR THE U.S. IN THE LIGHT OF CONGRESSIONAL RELUCTANCE TO PROVIDE MILITARY AID TO THE COUNTRY, U.S. OFFICIALS SAID TODAY.

THE OFFICIALS DID NOT QUOTE HAK BUT THEY SAID HE HAS CONCEDED THAT HE WOULD NEVER HAVE NEGOTIATED THE PEACE AGREEMENT IN GOOD CONSCIENCE IF HE HAD FORESEEN CONGRESS' RELUCTANCE TO PROVIDE WHAT HE CONSIDERS ENOUGH AID TO SOUTH VIET-NAM.

THEY SAID THE SECRETARY IS ALSO KNOWN TO BELIEVE THAT THE DEBATE OVER AID TO CAMBODIA IS AN INVITATION FOR THE NORTH VIETNAMESE TO LAUNCH A RENEWED OFFENSIVE IN NEIGHBORING SOUTH VIET-NAM. ...

U.S. OFFICIALS TRAVELING WITH HAK ON HIS CURRENT ME PEACE MISSION CITED AN ARTICLE RECENTLY PUBLISHED IN NORTH VIET-NAM SAYING THAT THIS YEAR SHOULD BE A YEAR OF MAXIMUM EFFORT BECAUSE AMERICAN INDECISION AND AID CUTS MADE THE U.S. INCAPABLE OF INTERVENING ON SOUTH VIET-NAM'S BEHALF.

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RADIO/TV:

1. TED KOPPEL, AM AMERICA - THE WINTER IN ASWAN THESE DAYS IS BEAUTIFUL AND THE SETTING OF PRESIDENT SADAT'S REST HOUSE IS SCENIC WHICH MAY BE SOME SMALL CONSOLATION TO HAK AND PRESIDENT SADAT WHO CAN STILL EXPECT TO SEE A LOT OF EACH.

SECRETARY: I'M DETERMINED TO STAY UNTIL WE EITHER REACH AN AGREEMENT OR IT IS CLEAR WE CANNOT REACH AN AGREEMENT, SO I'M DETERMINED TO STAY.

KOPPEL: WHEN PRESIDENT SADAT WAS ASKED YESTERDAY WHETHER AN AGREEMENT REMAINS WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY HE IN EFFECT TOSSED THE BALL BACK INTO ISRAEL'S COURT.

PRESIDENT SADAT: I CAN ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ON THURSDAY, LET US HOPE, WHEN DR. KISSINGER RETURNS.

KOPPEL: IT DEPENDS, IN OTHER WORDS, ON WHAT HAK HEARD LAST NIGHT WHEN HE MET WITH THE ISRAELI NEGOTIATING TEAM IN JERUSALEM. IT IS A DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY ENDLESS GAME THIS EXERCISE OF WAITING FOR THE OTHER SIDE TO MAKE THE NEXT CONCESSION. AT THE MOMENT IT DOES NOT LOOK GOOD, BUT HAK STILL INSISTS IT'S POSSIBLE.

2. DICK VALERIANI, NBC, TODAY - ON HIS THIRD VISIT TO ASWAN, HAK WAS HOPING TO SPEED-UP THE PACE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS BUT AFTER HE AND PRESIDENT SADAT CONFERRED ON THE EGYPTIAN RESPONSE TO THE LATEST ISRAELI NEGOTIATING SUGGESTIONS NEITHER MAN GAVE ANY INDICATION OF SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS.

SECRETARY: ONE CANNOT IN THE NEGOTIATIONS SPEAK OF ANY PARTICULAR POINT IN WHICH THERE IS A BREAKTHROUGH. I'M TRYING TO NARROW THE GAP BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES BY EXPLAINING THE IDEAS AS CAREFULLY AS I CAN. AS I HAVE SAID ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS THE GAP HAS NARROWED BUT IT ALWAYS REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER IT CAN FINALLY BE CLOSED.

VALERIANI: HAK THEN CAME BACK TO ISRAEL TO REPORT ON HIS TALKS IN EGYPT. HE PLANS TO RETURN TO ASWAN ON THURSDAY. THE NEXT EXCHANGE OF IDEAS SHOULD DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT AN AGREEMENT IS POSSIBLE. AND WHILE HAK DOES NOT ANTICIPATE SUSPENDING THE NEGOTIATIONS AND RETURNING TO WASHINGTON, AS SOME ISRAELI NEWSPAPERS HAVE SPECULATED, HE DOES NOT RULE IT OUT.

3. DALLAS TOWNSEND, CBS WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP - HAK MET AGAIN THIS MORNING WITH PM RABIN AND THEN HE FLEW OFF TO SAUDI ARABIA FOR A CHAT WITH KING FAISAL. MARVIN KALB REPORTS THAT BY THE TIME HAK RETURNS TO ISRAEL

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TOWIGHT THE ISRAELI CABINET WILL HAVE MET AND PRESUMABLY REACHED AGREEMENT ON A NEW PROPOSAL FOR THE SECRETARY TO TAKE TO EGYPT TOMORROW. A PROPOSAL KALB SAYS, "DESIGNED TO BREAK THE BACK OF THE DEADLOCKED NEGOTIATIONS."

KALB: HAK GAVE THE ISRAELIS PRESIDENT SADAT'S LATEST THINKING SHORTLY AFTER HIS RETURN TO JERUSALEM LAST NIGHT. IT PRODUCED QUICKLY A GLOOMY ATMOSPHERE ISRAELI OFFICIALS SAYING THEY THINK SADAT HAS "HARDENED HIS LINE." THERE IS NO AGREEMENT YET ON THE THREE BASIC ISSUES IN THIS NEGOTIATION. ISRAEL WANTS SADAT TO ACCEPT THE IDEA OF NON-BELLIGERENCY -- HE DOES NOT, NOT YET. ISRAEL WANTS THE AREA SHE IS BEING ASKED TO EVACUATE TO BE DEMILITARIZED, TO BE NO LONGER A SOURCE OF MILITARY CONTENTION. SADAT WANTS ONLY A THIN BUFFER ZONE BETWEEN THE TWO ARMIES. FINALLY, ISRAEL WANTS THE UN POLICING UNIT TO HAVE AN INDEFINITE MANDATE; EGYPT IS READY FOR A ONE YEAR MANDATE OFFICIALLY, A SECOND YEAR UNOFFICIALLY. THE ISRAELIS WANT WHAT DM PEREZ CALLED, "REAL MOVES NOT WORDS." FOR WORDS HE SAID, WE HAVE THE BIBLE AND THEY HAVE THE KORAN.

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~~,~~ NYTIMES, GWERTZMAN, PAGE 5, JERUSALEM: ...LATER ABOARD HAK'S PLANE FLYING TO ISRAEL, NEWSMEN WERE TOLD THAT ONCE A NEW SINAI AGREEMENT WAS REACHED SADAT MIGHT TAKE SOME "ALLEVIATING" STEPS, BUT THAT THOSE SUBJECTS WERE NOT NOW PRIME ISSUES BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT.

NEWSMEN WERE TOLD THAT HAK HAD BEEN TRYING TO WORK OUT A DOCUMENT THAT FELL SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HIGHLY POLITICAL NON-BELLIGERENCY PLEDGE ORIGINALLY SOUGHT BY ISRAEL AND PURELY MILITARY DISENGAGEMENT DOCUMENT SOUGHT BY EGYPT UNDER WHICH ISRAEL WOULD GIVE UP MITLA AND GIDI PASSES AND ABU RUDEIS OIL FIELDS.

IN HAK'S VIEW, THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD INCLUDE LANGUAGE AND DETAILS MAKING MORE PERMANENT CURRENT CEASEFIRE, SUCH AS DEFINITE LONG TIME PERIOD SOUGHT BY ISRAELIS, STRENGTHENING OF U. N. BUFFER ZONE FORCE, AND MUTUAL DECLARATIONS NOT TO LAUNCH ATTACKS OR WAR AGAINST EACH OTHER. DOCUMENT WOULD BE STRONGER THAN JANUARY 1974 SINAI DISENGAGEMENT ACCORD, WHICH PLEDGED BOTH SIDES TO ABIDE BY CEASE-FIRE.

AMERICAN OFFICIALS SAID THAT MAIN DISAGREEMENTS CENTER NOT SO MUCH ON SUBSTANCE OF PROPOSED ACCORD, AS ON MANNER IN WHICH IT IS CARRIED OUT. THUS, HAK BELIEVES THAT IF SADAT AND RABIN WERE EACH ASKED TO WRITE DOWN THEIR IDEAS ON WHAT ACCORD SHOULD CONTAIN, THEY WOULD COME UP WITH SIMILAR VIEWS, BUT WOULD DIFFER ON HOW TO PUT THEM INTO AN AGREEMENT....

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AMERICAN OFFICIALS NOW BELIEVE THAT BY END OF THIS WEEK, THEY WILL KNOW WHETHER AN AGREEMENT CAN BE REACHED. MOST TOP U. S., ISRAELI AND EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS BELIEVE THAT AN AGREEMENT IS MORE LIKELY THAN NOT, BUT ALL FEAR THAT IT MAY PROVE TOO RISKY POLITICALLY FOR EITHER EGYPT OR ISRAEL TO MAKE NECESSARY COMPROMISE.

2. WASHPOST, BERGER, SECTION II, JERUSALEM: HAK SAID TODAY THAT "SEVERAL SUBSTANTIAL AREAS OF DISAGREEMENT" REMAIN BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL BUT HE IS CONTINUING HIS DIPLOMATIC SHUTTLING IN BELIEF THAT AN ACCORD IS STILL POSSIBLE...

...SADAT TOLD REPORTERS THAT HE COULD MAKE JUDGMENT THURSDAY, WHEN HAK RETURNS, WHETHER A NEW AGREEMENT CAN BE CONCLUDED. EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT THUS SUGGESTED THAT

NEGOTIATIONS HAVE REACHED A DECISIVE STAGE.

REPORTERS TRAVELING TO ISRAEL WITH HAK TODAY WERE TOLD THAT TALKS ARE NOW AT A POINT WHERE STOCK HAS TO BE TAKEN OVER PERIOD OF DAYS. HAK HAS SAID HE WILL REMAIN IN REGION EITHER UNTIL AN ACCORD IS COMPLETED OR UNTIL IT BECOMES CLEAR THAT AN ACCORD IS NOT POSSIBLE.

HIS INTENTION TO STAY FOR SOME TIME WAS INDICATED WHEN HE BROUGHT IN A NEW TEAM OF SECRETARIES.

INCREASINGLY, THEME IS EMERGING THAT CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE CAN BE VERY SERIOUS, WHILE REWARDS OF SUCCESS CAN BE GREAT. IT IS APPARENT THAT HAK SAYS THIS TO LEADERS ON BOTH SIDES.

...ISRAELIS, WHO ARE HOLDING OUT FOR A CONTRACTUAL COMMITMENT BY SADAT ON ENDING EGYPT'S STATE OF WAR, HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT IF CURRENT NEGOTIATIONS FAIL, TALKS COULD MOVE TO GENEVA.

BUT TOP ISRAELI OFFICIALS ADMIT THAT THEY ARE FACING AN EXTRAORDINARILY DIFFICULT PROBLEM. AN ACCORD THAT DOES NOT MEET THEIR PRINCIPAL DEMANDS COULD PROVOKE A DOMESTIC POLITICAL CRISIS WHILE AT SAME TIME LEAVING COUNTRY IN A LESS ADVANTAGEOUS STRATEGIC POSITION IF REGION DOES NOT MOVE TOWARD PEACE...

CONTENTION ABOARD HAK PLANE IS THAT EGYPTIANS WOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE SOME STEPS PROVIDED THAT THEY ARE NOT DISCUSSED PUBLICLY--THAT WOULD CONSTITUTE DE FACTO ALLEVIATION OF STATE OF BELLICERENCE.

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3. NY DAILY NEWS, CARTER, ASWAN: ...IT IS END OF THEIR LATEST ROUND OF TALKS AT SADAT'S VILLA OVERLOOKING UPPER NILE... REPORTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM DOZEN NATIONS CRAM INTO SMALL ROOM, EAGER TO TAKE PICTURES ANXUSK QUESTIONS.

SADAT ANSWERS EVERY QUESTION WITH GREAT POLITENESS, EVEN LOADED ONES FROM REPORTERS WHOSE PRO-ISRAELI SYMPATHIBS ARE APPARENT. HAK SOMETIMES BRISTLES AT QUESTIONING.

THERE ARE HINTS ON HAK'S PLANE THAT HAK THINKS THAT QUESTIONING IS TOO HARD, THAT REPORTERS ACCOMPANYING HIM ARE POURING FUEL ON DIPLOMATIC FLAMES BY DEMANDING YES OR NO ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS THAT FORCE SADAT TO REPEAT A HARD PUBLIC LINE.

AT LEAST SOME AMERICAN OFFICIALS WOULD LIKE TO CUT OUT PRESS CONFERENCES DURING PRESENT, DELICATE PHASE OF HAK'S SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY. SADAT SEEMS TO LIKE SESSIONS, AND SO ANOTHER ONE WAS HELD TODAY, WITH MORE TOUGH QUESTIONS.

4. BALT SUN, MILLS, PAGE 11, JERUSALEM: EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI PEACE TALKS MOVED INTO A CRITICAL PHASE YESTERDAY, WITH ISRAEL PUBLICLY DEMANDING EGYPT MAKE REAL MOVES TOWARD POLITICAL RAPPROCHEMENT AND EGYPT INSISTING IT IS TOO EARLY FOR SUCH GESTURES...

...AMERICAN OFFICIALS ARE STILL SAYING IT IS TOO EARLY TO PREDICT OUTCOME OF HAK MISSION. ALREADY 10 DAYS OLD OR EVEN HOW MUCH LONGER IT WILL TAKE.

CRUX OF PROBLEM, CLEARLY, IS FINDING FORMULA TO SATISFY ISRAELI DEMAND FOR FIRM AND PUBLIC INDICATIONS BY EGYPT THAT THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT ONLY BRING AN END TO HOSTILIES BUT ALSO A BEGINNING TOWARD MORE NORMAL RELATIONS...

ISRAEL, PERES SAID, IS DEMANDING POSITIVE CHANGE IN EGYPT'S ATTITUDE, AND THAT IS POINT ON WHICH TALKS ARE NOW CENTERED. BOTH ISRAELIS AND AMERICAN OFFICIALS HAVE DECLINED TO SAY PUBLICLY WHAT SPECIFICALLY ISRAEL IS ASKING.

BUT ISRAELIS ARE KNOWN GENERALLY TO WANT EGYPT TO DROP OUT OF ARAB PROPAGANDA AND ECONOMIC CAMPAIGN AGAINST ISRAEL AND TO TAKE SOME TENTATIVE STEPS TO EASE COMMERCIAL AND COMMUNICATIONS BARRIERS BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES.

SADAT...SAYS CONCRETE MOVES TOWARDS CONCILIATION SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ONLY AT GENEVA AS PART OF FINAL ME PEACE SETTLEMENT.

HE STATED THAT POSITION YESTERDAY IN UNUSUALLY SHARP TERMS WHEN HE AND HAK TALKED TO REPORTERS AFTER THEIR MORNING MEETING. INGERSOLL

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SUBJECT: MEDIA REPORT, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1975.

FOR AMBASSADOR ANDERSON FROM S/PRS.

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SUMMARY: HAK REPORTS STILL SUBSTANTIAL DISAGREEMENT BUT PLANS REMAIN IN AREA UNTIL CLEAR ONE WAY OR OTHER.

NEWSPAPER BEIRUT REPORTS HAK RECENTLY SENT MESSAGE TO CASTRO TO IMPROVE RELATIONS THRU SYRIAN FM KHADDAM.

SPECIAL NOTE: HEARST BUR CHIEF THEIS ADVISES BALT NEWS AMER DURING CONVERSION TO NEW TYPE LAST WEEK, COMPUTER SUFFERED BREAKDOWN./ BOST HERALD MAR 11 AND 13 CARRIED WALLACH NEWS ANALYSIS FEATURES ON ME AND CYPRUS.

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1. UPI: HAK SAID TUESDAY THERE WAS STILL "SUBSTANTIAL DISAGREEMENT" IN THE WAY OF A NEW ACCORD BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL FOR A FURTHER ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL EAST OF THE SUEZ CANAL.

BOTH HE AND PRESIDENT SADAT CONCEDED THAT AGREEMENT MAY NOT BE REACHED IN HAK'S LATEST SHUTTLE MISSION BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES. HAK SAID HE WOULD REMAIN IN THE AREA UNTIL IT WAS CLEAR ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.

SADAT SAID THERE WAS NO AGREEMENT YET EVEN ON THE PRINCIPLES OF A NEW ACCORD FOR WHAT HE CALLED A "VERY LIMITED WITHDRAWAL."

TWO HOURS BEFORE HAK ARRIVED HERE FROM EGYPT, DM PERES TOLD A HEBREW UNIVERSITY AUDIENCE THAT ISRAEL WANTS A "POSITIVE CHANGE" IN ITS RELATIONS WITH EGYPT AND WAS WILLING TO TAKE ITS TIME IN NEGOTIATIONS THROUGH HAK TO ACHIEVE IT.

#LET'S NOT DO A HASTY JOB SO EVERYONE WILL REGRET IT THE NEXT DAY," PERES SAID. "THE TEST OF THE NEGOTIATIONS IS THE CREATION OF THE SITUATION WHICH WILL COME IN FCFWMXSB OF IT."

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HAK RETURNED FROM HIS THIRD SHUTTLE TO EGYPT BRINGING "NEW IDEAS" FROM SADAT THAT HE PRESENTED TO ISRAELI PM RABIN AND THE ISRAELI NEGOTIATORS.

A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL ON HAK'S PLANE SAID AGREEMENT IS STILL POSSIBLE AND THINGS WERE NOT YET AT THE CRUNCH.

WHILE ISRAEL CONSIDERS ITS ANSWER IN THE LATEST BACK AND FORTH, HAK WILL FLY TO SAUDI ARABIA ON WEDNESDAY TO GET WHATEVER HELP HE CAN FROM KING FAISAL AND BRING HIM UP TO DATE ON THE TALKS.

SITTING BESIDE KISSINGER IN ASWAN, SADAT RULED OUT EMBED TRADE AND TRAVEL BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES AS PART OF THIS AGREEMENT -- POI-NTS BELIEVED DESIRED BY I ISRAEL.

SADAT ALSO SAID THAT AN END TO THE STATE OF BELLIGERENCY, ALSO DESIRED NOW BY ISRAEL, WOULD HAVE TO BE PART OF A LATER OVERALL SETTLEMENT IN GENEVA.

THE EGYPTIAN LEADER TOLD QUESTIONERS IF HOPED TO KNOW BY THE TIME HAK RETURNED THURSDAY WHETHER AN AGREEMENT WOULD BE POSSIBLE ON ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM THE STRATEGIC SINAI MOUNTAIN PASSES AND OIL FIELDS.

SADAT ADDED TO THE PESSIMISTIC NOTE BEGINNING TO CREEP INTO THE PUBLIC STATEMENTS BY SAYING THERE WAS AS YET NO AGREEMENT ON THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF A NEW ACCORD AND DECLARING THERE MIGHT NOT BE AN AGREEMENT AT ALL. IF NOT, HE SAID, EGYPT WAS READY TO FACE WHAT COMES BUT IF THERE IS AN AGREEMENT, HE ADDED, IT WOULD BE A TURNING POINT.

A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL ECHOED THAT BY SAYING THERE WOULD BE NO AGREEMENT IF THE TWO COUNTRIES COULD NOT GET TOGETHER AND THAT BOTH OF THEM WOULD HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES.

THE OFFICIAL, SPEAKING ON HAK'S PLANE AS HE FLEW BACK TO ISRAEL, SAID THAT AN AGREEMENT DEFINITELY IS STILL POSSIBLE BUT THAT BOTH COUNTRIES HAVE TO BEGIN TO TAKE STOCK WHERE THEY STAND. END UPI.

2. AP: THE SECRETARY FLEW BACK TO ISRAEL AFTER THE MEETING WITH SADAT. THE SAUDI ARABIA STATE RADIO SAID HAK PLANNED TO INTERRUPT THE EGYPT-ISRAEL SHUTTLE WEDNESDAY FOR A FLIGHT TO RIYADH AND A MEETING WITH KING FAISAL ON HIS PEACE EFFORTS-

AFTER THE MEETING WITH SADAT, HAK REAFFIRMED HIS DETERMINATION TO STAY

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NEWSMEN ASKED SADAT ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF AGREEING TO THE EXCHANGE OF TOURISTS. HE REPLIED, "WE HAVEN'T AGREED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF THIS VERY LIMITED WITHDRAWAL. THIS ISSUE HAS TO BE DISCUSSED IN GENEVA.

ASKED ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF TRADE WITH ISRAEL, SADAT SAID, "THIS IS NOT FEASIBLE. IT IS REALLY ABSURE TO DISCUSS IT. ALL THESE ISSUES WILL BE DISCUSSED IN GENEVA.

HAK WAS ASKED IF HE IS TRYING TO GET SYRIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS MOVING. "THE PROCESS OF PEACE APPLIES TO THE WHOLE AREA AND THE UNITED STATES WILL DO ITS UTMOST TO ACHIEVE PROGRESS," HE REPLIED.

SADAT WAS ASKED IF HE WOULD AGREE TO A LARGE BUFFER ZONE IN SINAI MANNED BY THE UNITED NATIONS IF ISRAEL WITHDRAWS FURTHER. "IT'S QUITE NATURAL," HE REPLIED. "UN FORCES ARE ALREADY THERE"

THE PRESIDENT MADE CLEAR EGYPT WOULD NOT AGREE TO END THE STATE OF BELLIGERENCY "AS LONG AS AN ISRAELI SOLDIER IS ON MY LAND."

U.S. OFFICIALS TOLD NEWSMEN ON TUESDAY'S FLIGHT FROM JERUSALEM TO ASWAN THAT THE NEGOTIATIONS ARE MOVING "A SHADE SLOWER" THAN HAK EXPECTED AT THE START OF HIS MISSION, NOW IN ITS 13TH DAY.

AP FROM JERUSALEM: PRESIDENT SADAT AND ISRAELI DF PERES BOTH GAVE GLOOMY ASSESSMENTS TODAY OF THE CHANCES OF HAK WORKING OUT A NEW AGREEMENT ON HIS CURRENT MIDEAST SWING.

"THERE IS A POSSIBILITY WE MAY NOT REACH AN AGREEMENT," SADAT SAID AFTER SEEING KISSINGER FOR 90 MINUTES AT HIS UPPER NILE VILLA. "I HAVE THE IMPRESSION IT IS A VERY HARD, DIFFICULT, COMPLEX ROUND."

PERES, SAID THE MAIN OBSTACLE WAS EGYPT'S FAILURE SO FAR TO OFFER ENOUGH POLITICAL CONCESSIONS FOR AN ISRAELI PULLBACK IN SINAI.

SITTING BESIDE SADAT IN ASWAN, KISSINGER HIMSELF TOLD NEWSMEN THAT "THERE ARE SEVERAL SUBSTANTIAL AREAS OF DISAGREEMENT" BETWEEN THE VIEWS OF THE TWO SIDES...

J. UPI: HAK RECENTLY SENT A MESSAGE TO CUBAN LEADER FIDEL CASTRO TO TRY TO IMPROVE RELATIONS BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND HAVANA, THE NEWSPAPER BEIRUT SAID TODAY.

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THE NEWSPAPER SAID HAK SENT THE MESSAGE THROUGH SYRIAN FM KHADDAM WHO LEFT DAMASCUS FOR HAVANA SUNDAY TO ATTEND A MEETING OF THE COORDINATION COMMITTEE OF NONALIGNED COUNTRIES.

THE NEWSPAPER SAID THE AIM OF HAK'S MESSAGE WAS TO "SHOW GOOD INTENTIONS" BEFORE HIS FORTHCOMING FOUR OF LATIN AMERICAN STATES "WHICH HAVE STARTED SYMPATHIZING WITH CUBA."

IT SAID HAK CHOSE KHADDAM TO DELIVER THE MESSAGE "BECAUSE THIS WILL NOT RAISE SUSPICIONS IN WASHINGTON AND ESPECIALLY IN CONGRESS WHERE KISSINGER IS FACED WITH STRONG OPPOSITION."

NEWSPAPERS:

LA TIMES -- RESTON, P. 4: HAK TRANSMITTED NEW ISRAELI IDEAS TO PRESIDENT SADAT MONDAY NIGHT AS THE PACE OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES QUICKENED.

THE SECRETARY IS NOW DELIBERATELY TRYING TO SPEED UP HIS NEGOTIATIONS FOR A NEW ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT, ACCORDING TO A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL WITH HAK 'S PARTY.

HAK BELIEVES THE MAIN ISSUES BEFORE THE TWO SIDES ARE FAIRLY WELL DEFINED. ONE RANKING US OFFICIAL SAID THE NO LONGER TAKES HOURS UPON HOURS TO DISCUSS AN ISSUE BEFORE GETTING AN ANSWER.

IN THREE OR FOUR KEY AREAS, THIS OFFICIAL SAID, BOTH EGYPT AND ISRAEL UNDERSTAND THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES CLEARLY AND THUS ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE ANSWERS TO EACH OTHER FAIRLY QUICKLY. ...

IF HE CAN GET EGYPT AND ISRAEL TO AGREE ON THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THEIR DISPUTE, THEN HE IS LIKELY TO STAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AS LONG AS NECESSARY TO NEGOTIATE THE DETAILS OF A NEW PEACE AGREEMENT.

IF HAK FAILS TO WIN AGREEMENT ON THE BROAD NEGOTIATING OBJECTIVES, HE WILL LEAVE THE ME MORE QUICKLY, PROBABLY WITH A DIPLOMATIC FAILURE ON HIS HANDS.

HAK, ACCORDING TO A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL, STILL DOES NOT RULE OUT THE COLLAPSE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS. BUT HE NEVERTHELESS REMAINS HOPEFUL AND CONVINCED THAT THE TWO SIDES ARE MAKING PROGRESS SLOWLY. IT HAS BEEN SOMEWHAT SLOWER THAN HAK EXPECTED, THE OFFICIAL SAID. ...

THE PROBLEM FOR HAK AT THIS STAGE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS IS TO TRY TO FIT TOGETHER THE MILITARY REQUIREMENTS EGYPT IS DEMANDING FROM ISRAEL WITH THE POLITICAL CONCESSIONS ISRAEL INSISTS EGYPT MAKE. THE SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF THE HAK MISSION DEPENDS ON WHETHER THE SECRETARY CAN MESH THESE MILITARY AND POLITICAL REQUIREMENTS TO THE SATISFACTION OF BOTH SIDES...

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1. ABC EVENING, 25 MINUTES INTO PROGRAM:

REASONER: SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER FLEW TO ISRAEL FROM EGYPT TODAY FOR RENEWED TALKS ON THE SINAI DISENGAGEMENT. AS KISSINGER SHUTTLED BACK AND FORTH, PUBLIC STATEMENTS EXPRESS OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM IN A RHYTHMIC PATTERN THAT IS NOT WITHOUT DESIGN. KOPPEL EXPLAINS.

KOPPEL: WHAT IS VISIBLE AT THESE NEGOTIATIONS IS RATHER LIKE A COMPLICATED PIECE OF MUSIC BEING SIMULTANEOUSLY ORCHESTRATED BY THREE CONDUCTORS. TWO OF THE MAESTROS APPEARED AT A JOINT NEWS CONF. IN ASWAN THIS AFTERNOON, AND WHILE ONE TRIED TO KEEP A RELATIVELY LIVELY BEAT GOING, THE OTHER CAME CLOSE TO CONDUCTING A DIRGE.

KISSINGER: AS I HAVE SAID ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, THE GAP HAS NARROWED, BUT IT ALWAYS REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER IT CAN FINALLY BE CLOSED.

SADAT: IT IS VERY HARD, DIFFICULT COMPLICATED ROUND.

KOPPEL: THAT BORDERED ON BEING SADAT'S MOST OPTIMISTIC NOTE OF THE DAY. WHEN SOMEONE RAISED THE QUESTION OF POLITICAL ACTS OF NONBELLIGERENCE, LIKE COMMERCE OR TOURISM BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL, SADAT WAS UNYIELDING.

SADAT: YOU ARE RAISING ISSUES THAT SHOULD BE DISCUSSED THERE, IN GENEVA, AFTER THE FINAL SOLUTION. YOU DON'T RAISE SUCH ISSUES AS THESE NO. AND IT'S REALLY ABSURD TO DISCUSS SUCH ISSUES LIKE THIS.

KOPPEL: AND FOR A POLITICAL DECLARATION OF NONBELLIGERUFCY -- WHLKH ISRAEL IS STILL DEMANDING -- FOR WITHDRAWAL FROM THE MOUNTAIN PASSES AND THE OILFIELDS IN THE SINAI...

SADAT: WE SHALL NOT AGREE TO NONBELLIGERENCE AS MUCH AS THERE IS ANY FOREIGN SOLDIER ON OUR LAND.

KOPPEL: BY THE TIME SECRETARY K. LEFT ASWAN THIS AFTERNOON, THE MILITARY SADAT WAS LOOMING OMINOUSLY OVER THESE NEGOTIATIONS. IF SADAT HAD GIVEN KISSINGER ANY EGYPTIAN CONCESSIONS, TO TAKE TO ISRAEL WITH HIM, HE HAD ALSO DONE A NASTERLY JOB OF CONCEALING THEM.

BUT THAT IS PRECISELY KISSINGER'S POINT. WHAT IS EMERGING PUBLICALLY BOTH IN EGYPT AND IN ISRAEL, IS NOT NECESSARILY AN ACCURATE REFLECTION OF THE NEGOTIATIONS THEMSELVES. BOTH SIDES HAVE A VESTED INTEREST IN THE APPEARANCE OF TOUGHNESS, BUT KISSINGER REMAINS CONVINCED THAT CONCESSIONS AND AN AGREEMENT ARE STILL POSSIBLE IF ONLY THE PUBLIC RHETORIC CAN BE TONED DOWN.

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CHANCELLOR: SECRETARY OF STATE HAK SAID TODAY IN JERUSALEM THAT THERE IS STILL SUBSTANTIAL DISAGREEMENT

BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT OVER A NEW ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL IN THE SINAI DESERT. BUT, KISSINGER SAID, HE WILL CONTINUE TO GO FROM ISRAEL TO EGYPT UNTIL HE EITHER WORKS OUT AN AGREEMENT, OR DECIDES THAT HE CAN'T. (NO VALERIANI).

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MUDD: HAK'S EFFORTS TO BROKER A MIDDLE EAST PEACE APPEAR TO HAVE BOGGED DOWN. 'SUBSTANTIAL DISAGREEMENT' WAS THE WAY HE REFERRED TO THE PROBLEM AFTER FURTHER TALKS IN EGYPT TODAY. MORE FROM MARVIN KALB.

KALB: THE SEC. DISCUSSED ISRAEL'S LATEST IDEAS WITH PRES. SADAT FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF. THERE WAS NO BREAKTHROUGH. NO AGREEMENT ON ANY OF THE MAJOR ISSUES STILL DIVIDING THE TWO SIDES. SADAT HAD APPARENTLY EXPECTED ISRAEL TO SOFTEN HER DEMAND FOR NON-BELLIGERENCY. HE MISCALCULATED. ISRAEL INSISTED SHE WILL NOT GIVE UP HER OPTION FOR RENEWED WAR. SADAT GAVE HAK SOME NEW IDEAS FOR BREAKING THE DEADLOCK BUT WHEN THEY MET WITH NEWSFN, THEY COULD NOT CONCEAL THEIR GLOOMY VISION OF THE NEGOTIATION.

HAK: AS I HAVE SAID ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, THE GAP HAS NARROWED BUT IT ALWAYS REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER IT CAN FINALLY BE CLOSED.

SADAT: I HAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT, AS I TOLD YOU IN THE BEGINNING, IT IS VERY HARD, DIFFICULT, COMPLICATED ROUND.

KALB: BY THE TIME HE FLEW INTO ISRAEL THERE WAS NO HIDING THE FACT THAT THIS NEGOTIATION...

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SUMMARY: HAK AT CRITICAL STAGE IN NEGOTIATIONS, AS SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF HIS MISSION HANGS IN BALANCE. BOTH ISRAELI AND EGYPTIAN LEADERS ACKNOWLEDGE THAT NEGOTIATIONS ARE DIFFICULT AND HAK WILL MAKE DAILY SHUTTLE FLIGHTS BETWEEN ASWAN AND JERUSALEM TO TRY TO SPEED UP NEGOTIATIONS.

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1. KALB, CBS RADIO FIRST LINE REPORT, ASWAN: HAK IS COMPLETING SECOND WEEK OF HIS SHUTTLING DIPLOMACY IN ME. TOMORROW BEGINS THIRD WEEK AND IT IS CRITICAL ONE. HAK HAS MOVED STEADILY FROM ONE PHASE OF NEGOTIATION TO NEXT. HE CAME TO EGYPT AND THEN ISRAEL WITH WHAT HE LIKES TO CALL "A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR ANOTHER SINAI AGREEMENT." AFTER A TALK WITH SADAT IN ASWAN AND PM RABIN IN JERUSALEM, HE MOVED TO SECOND STAGE, FROM FRAMEWORK TO EXCHANGE OF GENERAL IDEAS. THEN LATE LAST WEEK GENERAL IDEAS BECAME CONCRETE IDEAS, SADAT TRANSMITTING A SET TO HAK TO GIVE TO RABIN, YESTERDAY RABIN GAVE HIS SET TO HAK TO GIVE TO SADAT. SOMETIMES IN NEXT FEW DAYS IF NEGOTIATING PATTERN REMAINS THOROUGHLY CONSISTENT, THESE CONCRETE IDEAS WILL BECOME PROPOSALS. EVEN THEN PROPOSALS WILL PROBABLY NOT BE ACCEPTED IN THEIR ENTIRETY BY ME SIDE OR OTHER AND THAT WILL PROMPT HAK TO COME UP WITH AN AMERICAN PROPOSAL TO BRIDGE GAP BETWEEN PROPOSALS OF TWO BELLIGERENTS. ADVANTAGE OF AN AMERICAN PROPOSAL IS THAT IT SPARES EGYPT FROM LOOKING AS THOUGH SHE IS ACCEPTING AN ISRAELI PROPOSAL AND ISRAEL FROM ACCEPTING AN EGYPTIAN PROPOSAL. IN THIS WAY AMERICANS BECOME NOT ONLY MIDDLE MEN BUT GUARANTORS OF AGREEMENT IF IT IS ACHIEVED. SO MUCH FOR STAGE OF AN AGREEMENT; NOW FOR SUBSTANCE. ISRAELIS WANT THIS AGREEMENT TO HAVE A KIND OF BASIC POLITICAL IMPORTANCE. THEY WANT IT TO MARK A TURNING POINT IN ARAB-ISRAELI RELATIONS. THEY WANT IT TO MOVE OLD RELATIONSHIP BASED ON HOSTILITY, EVEN HATRED, TO A NEW ONE BASED ON PROBABILITY OF ACCOMMODATION. FROM A STATE OF WAR, IN OTHER WORDS, TO A CONDITION OF ACCEPTANCE, ONE SIDE OF THE OTHER. A MUTUALITY OF INTEREST PROPELLING BOTH SIDES TOWARD AN EASING OF CONFRONTATION. ISRAELIS ARE PRAGMATIC FOR MOST PART; THEY DO NOT BELIEVE THAT NON-BELLIGERENCY, WHICH IS WHAT THEY

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["UNIVERSITY", "-2-", "STATk\n60650", "ARE REALLY TALKING ABOUT; CAN BE ACHIEVED OVERNIGHT.\nTHEY ARE PREPARED TO ACCEPT IT IN STAGES SO LONG AS THEY\nARE CONVINCED THAT THEY ARE REALLY MOVING TOWARD PEACE.\nIF THEY ARE SO CONVINCED THEY WILL GIVE UP TWO STRATEGIC\nPASSES AND OIL FIELDS IN SINAI AS PART OF ANOTHER GENERAL\nISRAELI WITHDRAWAL. IF THEY ARE NOT CONVINCED, HOWEVER,\nTHEN THEY WOULD JUST AS SOON HOLD ON TO PASSES ON ASSUMPTION\nTHAT WAR WOULD END INEVITABLE AND THEY HAD BETTER HOLD\nHIGH GROUND. BUT HOW DOES ONE DETERMINE A MOVEMENT FROM\nWAR TO PEACE? ANSWER IS BY TAKING A SERIES OF STEPS.\nISRAEL'S DEFINITION OF NON-BELLI GerenCy IS NINE STEPS TAKEN\nAS A WHOLE. HERE ARE ONLY THREE EXAMPLES: FIRST, ALLOW\nBLACKLISTED COMPANIES TO DO BUSINESS IN BOTH ISRAEL AND\nEGYPT. SECOND, ALLOW CRUISE SHIPS PASSING THROUGH MEDI-\NTERRANEAN TO MAKE STOPS AT ALEXANDRIA IN EGYPT AND THEN\nDIRECTLY TO HAIFA IN ISRAEL. THIRD, ALLOW ARABS WORKING\nIN OCCUPIED TERRITORY TO CROSS OPEN BRIDGES, BACK AND FORTH,\nTO FACILITATE COMMERCE. SO FAR SADAT HAS NOT AGREED TO\nTHIS NINE-POINT PACKAGE AND HE MAY NOT, BUT BIG DECISIONS\nFOR SADAT AND RABIN ARE PUSHING IN ON BOTH OF THEM REAL\nFAST. TIME IS NOW--BOTH SIDES KNOW IT, THIS NEGOTIATION\nCAN STILL COLLAPSE.", "2. KOPPEL, ABC-TV, ASWAN: EXTERNAL ELEMENTS ARE ALWAYS - SAME, PROTOCOL WHICH REQUIRES THAT ONE FOREIGN MINISTER BE MET BY ANOTHER, THE INSATIABLE DEMANDS OF MEDIA WHICH REQUIRE ENDLESS REPETITION OF MEANINGLESS ARRIVAL STATEMENTS BECAUSE OCCASIONALLY MANCES ARE DROPPED TO POINT CAREFUL LISTENER IN DIRECTION OF SUBSTANCE. FORMAL POSING FOR", "PICTURES WHICH WILL BE FOUND WITH LEGIONS OF IDENTICAL\nTWINS AND THAT MOST INEXACT SCIENCE OF ALL. DAILY TEMPERA-\NTURE TAKING OF DIPLOMATS WHICH SPECIALIZE IN MASKING\nREALITY. WHERE THEN DO HAK'S NEGOTIATIONS STAND? ISRAELIS\nARE PREPARED TO GIVE UP MT. PASSES IN SINAI THAT PROVIDE\nTHEM WITH A NATURAL DEFENSE AGAINST FUTURE EGYPTIAN INVAS-\nIONS IF THEY CAN BE CONVINCED THAT EGYPT WILL NOT ATTACK\nTHEM AGAIN. EGYPT Fears MAKING TOO FORMAL STATEMENT IN\nTHAT DIRECTION BECAUSE IT FEELS THAT THERE WOULD THEN BE\nNO INCENTIVE FOR ISRAEL TO RETURN REMAINING TERRITORIES\nTHAT IT CAPTURED IN LAST TWO WARS. HAK IS TRYING TO\nSHAPE A COMPROMISE THAT WILL SATISFY BOTH SIDES. BUT HE\nIS TRYING TO DO IT QUIETLY WITHOUT TOO MANY VISIBLE SIGNS\nOF PROGRESS SO THAT ARAB RADICALS WILL NOT UNDERMINE\nAGREEMENT BEFORE IT CAN BE COMPLETED. HAK IS REASONABLY\nCLOSE TO KNOWING WHETHER HE WILL SUCCEED OR FAIL.", "WIRES", "1. UPI, ASWAN: HAK'S SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL RAN INTO TOUGH GOING TODAY WITH SUCCESS OR FAILURE STILL IN BALANCE."]

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SENIOR U. S. OFFICIAL TRAVELING WITH HAK CONCEDED NEGOTIATIONS WERE SO DIFFICULT IT WAS HARD TO PREDICT HOW LONG TALKS WOULD TAKE.

OFFICIAL SAID THERE WAS SLOW AND STEADY PROGRESS, BUT IN END GAINS MIGHT NOT BE ENOUGH TO ENSURE A NEW ISRAEL- EGYPTIAN TROOP SEPARATION AGREEMENT IN SINAI DESERT.

HAK EXPECTED TO RETURN TO ASWAN AT LEAST TWO MORE TIMES THIS WEEK IN AN EFFORT TO SPEED UP THE PROCESS OF NEGOTIATIONS.

ISRAELI AND EGYPTIAN LEADERS HAVE ALSO DESCRIBED NEGOTIATIONS AS DIFFICULT.

HAK SAID TODAY GAP HAS NARROWED BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL ON A POSSIBLE SECOND STAGE DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT BUT THEREWERE STILL "SEVERAL SUBSTANTIAL AREAS OF DISAGREEMENT."

HAK CALLED THEM "ADDITIONAL AND IN SOME CASES NEW CONSIDERATIONS".

HAK AND SADAT, MADE CLEAR THAT SUBSTANTIAL DIFFERENCES STILL REMAIN BEFORE THERE CAN BE AGREEMENT ON AN ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM SINAI PASSES AND ABU RUDEIS OIL FIELDS.

"THERE ARE SOME AREAS OF AGREEMENT AND SEVERAL SUBSTANTIAL AREAS OF DISAGREEMENT," HAK SAID.

SADAT EMPHASIZED THAT THERE HAD NOT YET BEEN AGREEMENT ON PRINCIPLES OF A SECOND STAGE ACCORD. HE ADDED, "AS HAK HAS SAID, WE HAVE HAD FRUITFUL TALKS. I HAVE GIVEN HIM NEW CONSIDERATIONS AS AN ANSWER TO ISRAELI IDEAS HE BROUGHT HERE."

SADAT RULED OUT ANY END OF STATE OF BELLIGERENCY BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES UNTIL LATER PEACE CONFERENCE AT GENEVA AND SAID THAT SUCH QUESTIONS AS IMPROVED TRADE AND COMMUNICATIONS WOULD HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THAT WAS ACHIEVED.

ASKED WHETHER HE BELIEVED THERE COULD BE AN ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM GIDI AND MITLA PASSES AND ABU RUDEIS OIL FIELDS IN SINAI. HE SAID HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO ANSWER THURSDAY WHEN HAK RETURNS.

"LET US HOPE," HE SAID.

HAK REPEATED THAT HE WOULD STAY IN AREA UNTIL IT WAS CLEAR EITHER THAT HE COULD BRING ABOUT A NEW AGREEMENT OR THAT HE COULD NOT.

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SADAT, ASKED WHAT HE ENVISIONED AS A FINAL SOLUTION AND WHEREFRONTIERS OF ISRAEL WOULD BE, REPLIED THEY WOULD BE BORDERS BEFORE THE 1987 WAR. IN WHICH ISRAEL OCCUPIED SINAI DESERT, GOLAN HEIGHTS AND WEST BANK OF JORDAN; AND HE ADDED, "IF WE CAN SUCCEED IN GENEVA TO END STATE OF BELLIGERENCY, IT WOULD BE A VERY BIG THING FOR THIS GENERATION. CORE OF PROBLEM IS PALESTINIAN PROBLEM. IF WE CAN ACHIEVE END-OF STATE OF BELLIGERENCY IN OUR GENE-BIG ACHIEVEMENT."

2. AP, SCHWEID, ASWAN: HAK SAID TODAY HE IS TAKING TO JERUSALEM SOME NEW EGYPTIAN IDEAS BUT "THERE ARE SEVERAL SUBSTANTIAL AREAS OF DISAGREEMENT" WITH ISRAELI VIEWS.

SADAT ACKNOWLEDGED NEGOTIATIONS WERE DIFFICULT AND THAT "THERE IS A POSSIBILITY WE MAY NOT REACH AN AGREEMENT."

TALKING TO NEWSMEN AFTER A 90-MINUTE SESSION, HAK SAID "THE GAP HAS BEEN NARROWED BUT IT ALWAYS REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER IT CAN FINALLY BE CLOSED."

SADAT SAID SUCH SUBJECTS AS TOURISM BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES SHOULD ONLY BE DISCUSSED IN GENEVA.

HE AGAIN CALLED ON ISRAEL TO RETREAT TO ITS 1967 BORDERS AND SAID THE "CORE OF THE PROBLEM" IN THE ME REMAINS PALESTINIANS.

SADAT ALSO SAID "IF WE CAN END STATE OF BELLIGERENCY BETWEEN ARABS AND ISRAELIS IT WILL BE A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT" FOR THIS GENERATION.

HAK HOPES TO SPEED UP NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT BY MAKING DAILY SHUTTLE FLIGHTS BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES FOR REST OF WEEK. U. S. OFFICIALS SAY.

NEWSPAPERS

1. WSJ - NO STORY TODAY.

2. NY DAILY NEWS, CARTER, PAGE 16, ASWAN: HENRY RUNS BEHIND ON PEACE-PACT SKED. HAK GAVE SADAT TONIGHT WHAT HE DESCRIBED AS NEW "SPECIFIC IDEAS" FROM ISRAEL FOR A SECOND-STAGE SINAI DISENGAGEMENT PACT.

HAK STILL CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR AGREEMENT DESPITE PUBLICLY EXPRESSED PESSIMISM IN ISRAEL. HE SAID REPORTS FROM JERUSALEM THAT NEGOTIATIONS HAD RUN INTO SERIOUS TROUBLE WERE NOT TRUE.

A SENIOR OFFICIAL ON PLANE ACKNOWLEDGED FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT NEGOTIATIONS MIGHT TAKE CONSIDERABLY LONGER THAN TWO OR THREE WEEKS THAT HAK HAD PREDICTED WHEN HE SET OUT 12 DAYS AGO.

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OFFICIAL SAID NEGOTIATIONS WERE GOING "A SHADE SLOWER" THAN HAK HAD ANTICIPATED. TRYING TO SPEED THEM UP, HAK PLANNED TO MAKE THREE ROUND TRIPS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT THIS WEEK AND CRAM IN SIDE VISIT TO SAUDI ARABIA.

"SPECIFIC IDEAS" FROM ISRAEL WERE DESCRIBED BY SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL AS BEING REPLY WITH SOME SUBSTANTIVE CONTENT TO "CONCRETE IDEAS" THAT SADAT GAVE HAK LAST WEEK TO TAKE TO ISRAEL.

3. WASH POST, BERGER, PAGE 14, ASWAN: ON ARRIVAL IN EGYPT, HAK DENIED THAT HE HAD RUN INTO "SERIOUS TROUBLE" IN ISRAEL. CONTENTION ON PLANE WAS THAT SECRETARY HAD RECEIVED ENOUGH FROM ISRAELIS TO KEEP NEGOTIATING PROCESS GOING.

HAK IS STEPPING UP PACE OF NEGOTIATIONS. REPORTERS WERE TOLD, BECAUSE THREE OR FOUR ISSUES HAVE NOW BECOME

DEFINED ENOUGH SO EACH SIDE CAN GIVE CLEAR ANSWERS RELATIVELY QUICKLY.

ISRAELI CABINET HAD DECIDED YESTERDAY TO TELL HAK EGYPTIAN PROPOSALS TO DATE WERE INSUFFICIENT AND, IN SOME CASES, UNSATISFACTORY, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT EXHIBIT ENOUGH POLITICAL MOVEMENT ON SADAT'S PART TO WARRANT SUBSTANTIAL PULLBACK IN SINAI.....

...INFORMED SOURCES INDICATE CABINET DELIBERATIONS ALSO MADE IT CLEARER THAN BEFORE THAT GEOGRAPHIC CONCESSIONS WOULD BE FORTHCOMING, PROVIDED EGYPTIANS MAKE A POLITICAL DECISION TO END STATE OF WAR WITH ISRAEL.

...ISRAELI OFFICIALS FURTHER INSIST THAT THERE MUST BE A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COMMITTING EACH SIDE TO OTHER.

WHILE REPORTERS WERE TOLD HAK EXPECTS TOUGH GOING, HAK SAID TO BELIEVE THAT AN AGREEMENT IS POSSIBLE.

BOTH AMERICAN AND ISRAELI SOURCES SAY THERE HAS BEEN SLOW AND STEADY MOVEMENT, BUT NOT ENOUGH AT THIS POINT TO GUARANTEE THAT THERE WILL BE A SETTLEMENT. CLEAR SIGN THAT TWO SIDES ARE MOVING TOWARD EACH OTHER IS SEEN IN FACT THAT HAK PRESENT ASSESSMENT IS THAT IT MIGHT NOT BE NECESSARY FOR HIM TO PRESENT AMERICAN PROPOSALS TO BRIDGE GAPS AS HE HAS IN PREVIOUS NEGOTIATIONS.

HAK HOPE, REPORTERS WERE TOLD, IS BASED ON FACT THAT BOTH SIDES HAVE MADE IT ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT THEY WANT AN AGREEMENT AND HAVE GONE PRETTY FAR TO GET ONE.

IT IS HAK'S CONTENTION THAT BOTH KNOW IT IS IN THEIR INTEREST TO STRIKE A DEAL AND RECOGNIZE CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE AT THIS JUNCTURE....

4. NYTIMES, GWERTZMAN, PAGE 6, AWAN REPORTS HAK TALKS ENTER NEW ROUND. HAK BROUGHT LATEST ISRAELI PROPOSALS TO SADAT TONIGHT, AS HE SOUGHT TO STEP UP PACE OF NEGOTIATIONS AND PROD BOTH EGYPT AND ISRAEL TO MAKE CONCESSIONS NECESSARY TO PRODUCE A NEW SINAI AGREEMENT.

HAK AVOIDED MAKING ANY PREDICTIONS OF SUCCESS OR FAILURE IN HIS MISSION, BUT HE WAS CLEARLY CONCERNED ABOUT SLOW PROGRESS SO FAR...

HAK AND HIS TOP AIDES SAID THEY DO NOT SHARE GLOOM EXPRESSED IN ISRAELI PRESS TODAY ABOUT POSSIBILITY OF A BREAKDOWN IN TALKS. BUT THEY DO NOT HIDE THEIR FRUSTRATION WITH

RELUCTANCE OF EGYPT AND ISRAEL TO START MAKING SIGNIFICANT COMPROMISES.

CHIEF PROBLEM REMAINS... THAT ISRAELI LEADERS INSIST ON RECEIVING AN OPEN DECLARATION AND A PACKAGE OF SPECIFIC ACTIONS THAT ADD UP TO A DECISION BY EGYPT TO RENOUNCE WAR WITH ISRAEL IN RETURN FOR MEETING SADAT'S DEMAND FOR AN ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM STRATEGIC SINAI MT. PASSES AND OIL FIELDS CAPTURED FROM EGYPT IN 1967. ...

ISRAELI NEGOTIATORS HAVE TOLD HAK INFORMALLY THAT ONCE HE BRINGS THEM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL PACKAGE THEY WOULD SEEK APPROVAL FOR TERRITORIAL CONCESSIONS.

EGYPTIANS APPARENTLY OFFERED TO LINK A PLEDGE NOT TO GO TO WAR WITH CONTINUED PROGRESS TOWARD PEACE. BUT ISRAELIS TOLD HAK THE NO-WAR PLEDGE HAD TO BE UNCONDITIONAL...

ALTHOUGH HAK HAS NOT DIVULGED EXACT PROPOSALS AND COUNTER-PROPOSALS HE HAS EXCHANGED BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL. HIS AIDES HAVE EXPRESSED CONCERN WITH SIZE OF GAP BETWEEN SIDES, WITH ISRAEL SEEKING FROM SADAT SOMETHING THAT MAY BE TOO DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO CONCEDE, AND SADAT DEMANDING TERRITORY THAT ISRAEL FEELS IT CANNOT YIELD WITHOUT DRAMATIC POLITICAL CONCESSIONS.....

5. BALT SUN, MILLS P. 5 FROM ASWAN HEADLINED HAK, SADAT DISCUSS SPECIFICS. HAK ARRIVED ASWAN CONVINCED THAT NEW ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN PEACE AGREEMENT COULD BE WORKED OUT BUT NOT CERTAIN THAT IT WILL BE. ...

REPORTERS ABOARD THE PLANE WERE TOLD HAK NOW HOPES TO HOLD SHORTER SESSIONS WITH BOTH SIDES IN AN ATTEMPT TO SPEED UP TALKS. AMERICAN OFFICIALS SAID LESS TIME IS NEEDED NOW BECAUSE THE BASIC ISSUES IN THE NEGOTIATIONS LARGELY HAVE BEEN DEFINED.

THAT MEANS, OFFICIALS SAID, THAT HAK NEED NOT SPEND TIME AT EACH STOP GOING OVER 'GENERAL PRINCIPLES' -- HAK TERMINOLOGY FOR THE SCOPE AND AGENDA OF NEGOTIATIONS.

RATHER, THEY SAID, HE IS AT THE POINT WHERE HE CAN TAKE A
SPECIFIC IDEA FROM ONE SIDE ON A GIVEN ISSUE AND GET A
RESPONSE FAIRLY QUICKLY FROM THE OTHER SIDE.

HAK WAS SAID TO BELIEVE HE "CAN SEE HOW IT CAN BE WORKED
OUT BUT NOT POSITIVE THAT IT WILL BE."

AMERICAN OFFICIALS ALSO SAID THAT IT NOW APPEARS THAT HAK
MIGHT NOT HAVE TO INTRODUCE AN "AMERICAN PROPOSAL" INTO
THE TALKS. ...

HAK WAS SAID TO BE BRINGING "SPECIFIC IDEAS" FROM ISRAEL.
OFFICIALS DENIED SUGGESTIONS THAT HE HAD GOTTEN FEWER
CONNECTIONS FROM THE ISRAELI CABINET THAN HE HAD WANTED.
OFFICIALS SAID HAK HAD GOTTEN "EXACTLY", WHAT HE EXPECTED.

OFFICIALS HAVE PROVIDED NO DETAILS ON THE SUBSTANCE OF
THE NEGOTIATIONS, SO IT IS DIFFICULT TO GAUGE THEIR
PROGRESS INDEPENDENTLY. ...

BUT IT SEEMS CLEAR THAT THE TWO SIDES ARE FAR FROM ATTACK-
ING THE CRUX OF THE NEGOTIATIONS. ...

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SUMMARY: HAK RECEIVES GREEN LIGHT ISRAELI CABINET CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS. HAK PUTS NEWS BLACKOUT ON NEGOTIATING DETAILS. KOPPEL SEES NO BREAKTHROUGH AND U.S. OFFICIALS GLOOMILY PREDICT 10 MORE SHUTTLE DAYS. KALB SAYS LARGE GAP REMAINS AND POLITICAL ISSUE MUST BE SOLVED OR NEGOTIATION MAY COLLAPSE. GWERTZMAN'S NOTEBOOK SAYS HAK OUTLINES TRAVEL SCHEDULE THROUGH 75 AND HAK SPECULATES ON HIS SUCCESSOR. END SUMMARY.

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1. KOPPEL, ABC-TV FROM JERUSALEM: HAK'S MISSION IS NOW 12 DAYS OLD AND RUNNING INTO STORMY WEATHER. WHEN HAK LEFT ASWAN LAST FRIDAY THERE WAS A SENSE OF MOMENTUM. EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS WERE ALMOST BLATANTLY OPTIMISTIC, AT LEAST IN PRIVATE. HAK'S PUBLIC STATEMENTS SUGGESTED THAT A BREAK-THROUGH WAS POSSIBLE, AND SENIOR U. S. OFFICIALS WERE TELLING NEWSMEN THAT THESE NEGOTIATIONS WERE APPROACHING A CRITICAL JUNCTURE, AND THAT ISRAEL WAS NOW FACING A CRUNCH.

OVER WEEKEND, HOWEVER, ISRAELIS HAVE ADROITLY TURNED THAT AROUND. THERE IS NO SUGGESTION OF A BREAKTHROUGH TODAY. U. S. OFFICIALS ARE GLOOMILY PREDICTING THAT SHUTTLE AT LEAST HAS ANOTHER 10 DAYS TO RUN AND THERE IS NO EASE IN ISRAELI WILLINGNESS TO GIVE UP THOSE STRATEGIC MOUNTAIN PASSES OR OIL FIELDS IN SINAI. INSTEAD ISRAELIS HAVE ELECTED MOTION OF A 30 MILE WITHDRAWAL IN SINAI, NO OIL FIELDS, NO PASSES AND THEY WANT HAK TO FIND OUT WHAT CON-CESSIONS EGYPT IS WILLING TO MAKE FOR THAT.

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2. KALB, CBS-TV FROM ISRAEL: NO ONE IS POUNDING TABLE OR RAISING HIS VOICE BUT TALKS HERE IN JERUSALEM HAVE BEEN VERY TOUCHY. HAK MET WITH PM RABIN ALONE AND THEN WITH THEIR TOP AIDES THIS MORNING AS HE DID LAST NIGHT AND HAK WILL CARRY ISRAEL'S LATEST IDEAS FOR A SINAI AGREEMENT BACK TO EGYPT WHERE HE WILL PRESENT THEM TO SADAT PROBABLY THIS EVENING. ISRAELI LEADERS SAY THEY WANT AN AGREEMENT BUT NOT AT ANY PRICE, AND THEY INSIST THAT IF THEY ARE GOING TO GIVE UP TWO STRATEGIC PASSES IN SINAI, SADAT WILL HAVE TO GIVE UP MILITARY OPTION AGAINST ISRAEL.

RABIN TOLD HAK THAT ISRAEL DOES NOT EXPECT INSTANT PEACE BUT IT DOES EXPECT MOVEMENT TOWARD PEACE BASED ON MUTUAL ACCEPTANCE ONE STATE BY THE OTHER. SADAT THEY THINK WANTS AN AGREEMENT TOO. IN FACT HE HAS ALREADY ACCEPTED IDEA OF A SEPARATE AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL PUBLICLY CONTRACTED. BUT ISRAELIS THINK HE HAS NOT GONE FAR ENOUGH TOWARDS MEETING THEIR DEMANDS FOR NON-BELLIGERENCY. A LARGE GAP REMAINS ON THIS KEY POLITICAL ISSUE. IT MUST BE SOLVED THIS WEEK ONE WAY OR OTHER OR THIS NEGOTIATION MAY COLLAPSE.

NOTE: THIS SAME COMMENT WAS CARRIED IN A MODIFIED FORM ON CBS RADIO, WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP AT 8 O'CLOCK.

WIRES

UPI, JERUSALEM: HAK MET WITH PM RABIN TODAY TO GET ISRAELI ANSWER HAKHOPES WILL KEEP HIS SNUTTLE MISSION GOING IN SEARCH OF A SECOND STAGE ACCORD BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL.

HE HAD A GREEN LIGHT TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS FROM ISRAELI CABINET BUT IT WAS UNCLEAR WHAT PROPOSAL HE WAS TAKING BACK TO SADAT WHEN HE TOOK OFF FOR ASWAN TO BEGIN HIS THIRD SNUTTLE BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.

BEFORE LEAVING FOR EGYPT, HAK FIRST HAD BREAKFAST WITH RABIN AND THEN MET FULL ISRAELI NEGOTIATING TEAM FOR 90 MINUTES.

AFTERWARDS HE SAID, "WE REVIEWED ONCE AGAIN IDEAS WHICH I BROUGHT FROM EGYPT AND ISRAELI REACTION AS WELL AS

CONSIDERATIONS WHICH ISRAELI CABINET ARE ASKING ME TO TAKE TO EGYPT."

ISRAELI SOURCES SAID GAP STILL EXISTS BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES ON WHAT SETTLEMENT SHOULD BE AND THAT ISRAEL WAS NOT YET TALKING ABOUT TERRITORIAL ISSUES--A FORMAL OFFER TO WITHDRAW FROM ABU RUDEIS OILFIELDS AND SINAI MT. PASSES.

HAK PUT NEWS BLACKOUT ON DETAILS OF NEGOTIATIONS, BUT ISRAELI NEWSPAPERS WERE FULL OF SPECULATION AND REPORTS.

ENGLISH-LANGLAGE POST SAID EGYPT WAS NOT PREPARED TO SIGN NON-BELLIGERENCY DECLARATION THAT ISRAEL HAS DEMANDED.

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2. AP, SCHWEID, JERUSALEM: MAK FLIES TO EGYPT TODAY WITH NEW WORD FROM ISRAEL ABOUT PROPOSED SINAI WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT BUT APPARENTLY WITHOUT ANY MAJOR CONCESSIONS.

AFTER A 4-HOUR NEGOTIATING SESSION SUN DAY, PM ALLON SAID HE PREMIER RABIN AND PERES HAD GIVEN MAK "PROPOSALS", BUT MAK TERMED THEM "IDEAS".

HOWEVER, ISRAELI CABINET MET EARLIER AND AUTHORIZED ITS NEGOTIATORS TO CONTINUE TALKS ON BASIS OF GUIDELINES SET EARLIER BY CABINET.

THIS INDICATED THAT A PULL BACK TO 20- TO 30-MILES IN SINAI DESERT WAS STILL MAXIMUM ISRAELI OFFER, AND THAT EGYPT HAD NOT YET OFFERED SUFFICIENT INDUCEMENT FOR THEM TO GIVE UP ABU RUDEIS OIL FIELDS AND STRATEGIC MITLA AND GIDI PASSES.

IN CAIRO, IEANWHILE, AN EGYPTIAN GOVT SPOKESMAN SAID EGYPTIAN PROPOSAL MAK TOOK TO ISRAEL LAST WEEK "CONSTITUTE A FIRM EGYPTIAN POSITION WHICH IS NOT SUBJECT TO MANEUVERS OR OUTBIDDING."

ISRAELIS SAID THESE PROPOSALS, WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN DISCLOSED WERE "INSUFFICIENT, AND EVEN UNSATISFACTORY" IN SOME ASPECTS

EGYPTIAN SPOKESMAN SAID EGYPT, BECAUSE OF WHAT IT IS SPENDING TO REOPEN SUEZ CANAL AND REBUILD CITIES ALONG WATERWAY, SHOULD BE "ASSURED OF AN ADEQUATE ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FOR PROTESTING ITS HUGE HUMAN INVESTMENT IN REGION."

NEWSPAPERS

1. NYTIMES, PAGE ONE, SMITH FROM JERUSALEM SAYS TALKS BETWEEN ISRAELI LEADERS AND MAK RESUMED IN JERUSALEM AFTER CABINET HAD EMPOWERED ISRAELI NEGOTIATING TEAM TO CONTINUE EFFORTS TO REACH A NEW SINAI AGREEMENT WITH EGYPT.

2. NYTIMES, PAGE ONE, TANNER FROM ASWAN SAYS EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS SAID THEY EXPECTED A NEW ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL IN SINAI TO BE CARRIED OUT OVER A PERIOD OF 3 TO 6 MONTHS IF MAK WAS SUCCESSFUL IN BRINGING ABOUT A NEW AGREEMENT.

3. NYTIMES, GWERTZMAN, PAGE ONE, REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK EXCERPTS: JERUSALEM: ON WAY TO ASWAN SEVERAL NIGHTS AGO, NEWSMEN IN REAR OF MAK'S PLANE WERE TALKING ABOUT POSSIBILITY OF HIS RESIGNING...

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IN MIDST OF DISCUSSION, HAK WALKED BACK AND FOUND HIMSELF IN UNUSUAL SITUATION OF TALKING ABOUT MAN WHO MIGHT SUCCEED HIM. WE CAREFULLY GAVE NO CLUES AS TO HIS PLANS TO STAY OR NOT TO STAY, BUT HE DID OUTLINE A TRAVEL SCHEDULE THAT WOULD KEEP HIM BUSY THROUGH THE YEAR.

HAK SEEMED UNPERTURBED BY SUBJECT AND EVEN FASCINATED BY SPECULATION ABOUT A SUCCESSOR. WE GAVE NO FIRST CHOICE, BUT DID CONFIRM THAT HE THOUGHT VERY HIGHLY OF ELLIOTT L. RICHARDSON...

OTHERS WHOSE NAMES WERE MENTIONED AND DISCUSSED INCLUDED GEORGE W. BALL, MELVIN LAIRD, JAMES R. SCHLESINGER, ROBERT S- MCNAMARA, CYRUS R. VANCE, ZBIGNIEW BZEZINSKI, A SOVIET EXPERT FROM ACADEMIC COMMUNITY...

IMPRESSION GIVEN THIS CORRESPONDENT WAS THAT HAK WAS PREPARING HIMSELF FOR FACT THAT HIS TIME WAS RUNNING OUT AS SECRETARY OF STATE. CERTAINLY HE SEEMS VERY RELAXED ON THIS TRIP NOW IN ITS 12TH DAY--SO RELAXED THAT SOME SUSPECT HE MAY BE PLAYING A ROLE...

AT SEVERAL STOPS, DIPLOMATS HAVE ASKED MEMBERS OF HAK PARTY WHETHER HE WOULD CUT TRIP SHORT TO RETURN TO WASHINGTON BECAUSE OF CAMBODIA'S DESPERATE SITUATION. HAK ACTED SURPRISED AT SUCH QUESTIONS. "WHAT MORE CAN I DON'T" HAS BEEN HIS USUAL RESPONSE. "THE FATE OF CAMBODIA IS IN OTHERS' HANDS."

...MAIN PROBLEM FOR NEWSMEN ON THIS SHUTTLE, AS ON PREVIOUS HAK MEDIATION MISSIONS, HAS BEEN EXTREME DIFFICULTY IN SORTING OUT FACT FROM FANCY. AS A GOOD MEDIATOR, HAK HAS PLEDGED BOTH EGYPTIANS AND ISRAELIS TO SECRET ABOUT DETAILS OF DISCUSSION. ...

BUT WHAT FANMY OR HIS ASSOCIATES TELL AN AMERICAN NEWSMEN SEEMS TO HAVE ONLY REMOTE RELEVANCE TO WHAT SADAT MAY BE TELLING HAK IN PRIVATE. IN FACT, THERE IS REASON TO SUSPECT THAT THEY MAY BE TELLING AMERICAN NEWSMEN ALMOST OPPOSITE AT TIMES.

FOR INSTANCE, AT VERY TIME SADAT WAS GIVING HAK SOME FORMULATIONS TO TAKE TO ISRAEL, HIGH EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS WERE SAYING THAT EGYPT WOULD MAKE NO CONCESSIONS AT ALL.

CLEARLY, EGYPTIAN SIDE WANTS ITS ARAB ALLIES TO BELIEVE THAT IT IS STANDING FIRM IN DEMANDING TERRITORIAL CONCESSIONS FROM ISRAEL WITHOUT MAKING ANY OF ITS OWN...

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OTHER DAY, RABIN'S SPOKESMAN CAME INTO LOBBY TO READFROM NOTES SHARPLY CRITICAL OF EGYPT'S POSITION IN TALKS. HE FORBADE NEWSMEN TO USE HIS NAME, BUT ISRAELI RADIO BROADCAST HIS REMARKS FROM A TAPE, ALSO WITHOUT SAYING WHO HE WAS. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AS IF AN AMERICAN RADIO STATION PLAYED SOME OF HAK'S "BACKGROUND" COMMENTS ON AIR AND SAID THEY WERE FROM AN UNNAMED OFFICIAL.

LESS THAN AN HOUR AFTER ISRAELIS HAD CRITICIZED EGYPTIAN POSITION, HAK AND HIS AIDES WERE EXPRESSING ASTONISHMENT AS THEY HAD RECEIVED A MUCH MORE ENCOURAGING RESPONSE FROM ISRAELIS IN PRIVATE.

HAK VERY MUCH WANTS AN AGREEMENT AND IS CAREFUL TO TAILOR HIS REMARKS TO PROMOTE ONE....

HAK IS A PRIME TARGET FOR TERRORISTS, PARTICULARLY IN THIS PART OF WORLD, WHERE HISEFFORTS TO PROMOTE AN ARAB-ISRAELI SETTLEMENT ARE ANATHEMA TO SOME PALESTINIAN GROUPS.

RESULT HAS BEEN A STEADY INCREASE IN SECURITY, SO THAT HAK RECEIVES KIND OF PROTECTION NORMALLY AFFORDED AMERICAN PRESIDENTS...

ON THIS TRIP THERE ARE TWO SUCH LIMOUSINES, AND A C-141 FLIE ONE TO NEXT STOP. THERE ARE SAID TO BE 50 PERCENT MORE SECRET SERVICE AGENTS ON THIS TRIP....

ANYDAILY NEWS, CARTER, PAGE 6, JERUSALEM: ISRAELI CABINET, WARY OF BEING PUSHED TOO FAR TOO QUICKLY, HELD OFF TODAY FROM A NEW OFFER FOR A SINAI DISENGAGEMENT PACT AT LEAST UNTIL AFTER HAK HAS MADE ANOTHER TRIP TO EGYPT AND BACK.

ISRAELI OFFICIALS SAID THEY DID GIVE AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE "SOME NEW IDEAS" TONIGHT THAT THEY BELIEVED WOULD BE ENOUGH TO KEEP NEGOTIATIONS GOING. BUT IT WAS CLEAR THAT NEW IDEAS FELL SHORT OF MAJOR ISRAELI DECISION THAT HAK HAD HOPED WOULD BE MADE AT TODAY'S CABINET MEETING.

ISRAELIS WERE OBVIOUSLY STILL RELUCTANT TO OFFER MAJOR TERRITORIAL CONCESSIONS TO EGYPT, SUCH AS RETURN OF STRATEGIC SINAI MT. PASSES....

5. WASHPOST, BERGER, JERUSALEM: ISRAELI CABINET DECIDED TODAY TO STICK WITH ITS EARLIER NEGOTIATING DEMANDS, THUS SENDING HAK BACK TO EGYPT TO SEEK POLITICAL CONCESSIONS TO OBTAIN A NEW DISENGAGEMENT ACCORD. ....

WHILE CABINET MET, HAK WAS IN AMMAN, BRIEFING KING HUSSEIN ON NEGOTIATIONS. ON BENALF OF PRESIDENT FORD, HAK INVITED HUSSEIN TO VISIT U.S. LATE NEXT MONTH AND KING ACCEPTED.

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...NEGOTIATING TEAM WILL BE EMPOWERED TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS IN AN EFFORT TO NARROW GAP... "BUT," HE SAID, "THAT GAP IS QUITE A GAP;"...

...EXISTING ISRAELI CABINET POSITION APPROVES WITHDRAWAL OF FROM 18 TO 30 MILES ONLY, WHICH INCLUDES NEITHER PASSES NOR OIL FIELDS.

AN ISRAELI OFFICIAL SAID DETERMINATION OF GOVT TO PROCEED WITH NEGOTIATIONS SUGGESTS THAT THERE IS HOPE THAT SOMETHING CAN DEVELOP.

MAJOR STUMBLING BLOCK OFFICIALS SAID, IS EGYPTIAN INSISTENCE THAT ANY NEW ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL BE IN CONTEXT OF A MILITARY AGREEMENT...

ISRAELI OFFICIAL SAID THAT WHILE CABINET SOUGHT MORE FROM EGYPT ON ISSUE OF NON-BELLIGERENCE, IT DID NOT OVERLOOK FACT THAT "IN CONCRETE TERMS," SOME OF EGYPTIAN SUGGESTIONS COULD BE CONSIDERED POSITIVE.

- FLYING HERE FROM JORDAN TODAY, HAK PLANE FOR FIRST TIME TOOK DIRECT ROUTE OVER JERicho, THUS OVERFLYING OCCUPIED WEST BANK...

...HAK EXPRESSED SURPRISE WHEN ASKED WHAT KIND OF NEGOTIATIONS MADE THIS NEW ROUTING POSSIBLE. HE SAID HE KNEW NOTHING OF CHANGE.

ISRAELI SOURCES SAID THEY HAVE NEVER OBJECTED TO A ROUTE OVER WEST BANK, SO APPARENTLY JORDANIANS DROPPED THEIR OPPOSITION...

6. WALL ST. JOURNAL, LEVINE, PAGE 7, JERUSALEM: AMID SIGNS OF SLOW PROGRESS, HAK'S ME PEACE MISSION IS ENTERING SERIOUS STAGE, WITH ISRAEL STILL RELUCTANT TO MAKE MAJOR TERRITORIAL CONCESSIONS TO EGYPT IN SINAI DESERT.

...AFTER TWO FULL ROUNDS OF TALKS WITH ISRAELI AND EGYPTIAN NEGOTIATIONS...

"WE ARE HOPEFUL", ONE ISRAELI GOVT INSIDER SAID. "WE BELIEVE THIS IS WAY TO GO. THERE IS STILL A GOOD CHANCE HEADWAY WILL BE MADE."

ISRAEL IS CURRENTLY SEEKING FURTHER CONCESSIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS FROM EGYPTIANS. BASICALLY, ISRAELIS WANT AN EGYPTIAN PLEDGE OF NON-BELLIGERENCY AND STEPS POINTING TOWARD EVENTUAL NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS BETWEEN CAIRO AND JERUSALEM. WHETHER SADAT CAN RESPOND ADEQUATELY AND STILL SURVIVE POLITICALLY IN ARAB WORLD REMAINS OWE OF

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AT THIS POINT, BOTH ISRAELI GOVT AND PUBLIC IS AFRAID OF
BEING PRESSURED BY MAX INTO SURRENDERING TERRITORY WITHOUT
RECEIVING ADEQUATE MILITARY AND POLITICAL SSSURANCES IN
RETURN. MANY ISRAELIS WORRY THAT SECRETARY ISMORE INTERESSTE
IN DEFUSING ME SITUATION--AND THERBY IMPROVING AMERICA'S
RELATIONS WITH OIL-RICH ARAB STATES--THAN IN FULLY PROTEC-
TING INTERESTS OF ISRAEL...

SUCH FEARS WERE STIMULATED BY REPORTS OF SENIOR AMERICAN
OFFICIALS SAYING ON FRIDAY THAT TIME HAD COME FOR ISREAL TO
CONSIDER REVISING ITS TERRITORIAL PROPOSALS OF LAST
DECEMBER....

IN ADDITION TO DEALING WITH TOUCNY ISSUES OF NON-BELLIGERENCY
PLEDGE, MAX ALSO APPEARS TO BE GROPING FOR SOME WAY TO INCLUDE
SYRIANS IN NEGOTIATING PROCESS--IF ONLY IN FORM OF LANGUAGE
HINTING AT FUTURE TALKS BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND SYRIANS ON
FURTHER GOLANHEIGHTS DISENGAGEMENT... ROBINSON

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1. NYTIMES, GWERTZMAN, 3/15, AMMAN: HAK MADE ANOTHER APPARENTLY FRUITLESS EFFORT TODAY IN SYRIA TO PERSUADE ASSAD TO AT LEAST GO ALONG WITH GUEST FOR A NEW EGYPTIAN ISRAELI AGREEMENT IN SINAI.

AFTER FIVE HOURS OF TALKS WITH ASSAD, HAK FLEW TO JORDANIAN CAPITAL WITHOUT ANY APPARENT SIGN THAT SYRIAN LEADER HAD ALTERED HIS OPPOSITION...

AS HE DID 8 DAYS AGO IN HIS FIRST SESSION WITH ASSAD ON HIS CURRENT ME VISIT, HAK HELD OPEN POSSIBILITY THAT ONCE THERE WAS AN EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI ACCORD, ISRAEL AND SYRIA MIGHT HOLD TALKS OF THEIR OWN--SOMETHING THAT AMERICAN OFFICIALS ACKNOWLEDGE IS ONLY A DISTANT HOPE.

ABOARD HAK'S JET, REPORTERS WERE TOLD SECRETARY DID NOT EXCLUDE SYRIAN-ISRAELI TALKS.

AT AIRPORT, HAK SAID HE WOULD RETURN AGAIN TO DAMASCUS WHILE HE WAS STILL IN ME.

DURING HIS MEETING WITH ASSAD, HAK GOT AN IMPRESSION THAT SYRIA WAS SERIOUS ABOUT GOING AHEAD WITH A PROPOSAL BY ASSAD 8 DAYS AGO THAT THERE BE UNIFIED SYRIAN AND PALESTINIAN MILITARY AND POLITICAL COMMANDS...

DURING THIS TRIP, HAK HAS EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT SYRIANS IN ALLIANCE WITH PLO AND SUPPORTED BY SOVIET UNION, MIGHT INITIATE MAJOR PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN IN ARAB WORLD TO INTIMIDATE SADAT...

AS IF TO UNDERLINE HAK'S CONCERN THE PLO EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MET IN DAMASCUS TODAY WITH LEADER, ARAFAT, TO DISCUSS REPLY TO ASSAD'S PROPOSAL...

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HAK WAS ALSO CONCERNED THAT SYRIA. OVER LONG RUN MIGHT TRY
TO FORGE NEW ALLIANCE WITH IRAQ NOW THAT IRAQIS HAD
BEGUN SMOOTHING THEIR RELATIONS WITH IRAN....

FOR TACTICAL REASONS, HOWEVER, HAK HAS REFUSED TO SAY
PUBLICLY THAT CHANCES FOR AN ISRAELI-SYRIAN ACCORD ARE
SMALL...

2. SHPOST, BERGER, 3/15. AMMAN: HAK MADE ANOTHER ATTEMPT TODAY TO WIN ASSAD'S ACQUIESCENCE IN NEW EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI AGREEMENT.

PLO MEETING NEARBY. ANNOUNCED IT HAD ACCEPTED ASSAD'S
PROPOSAL FOR SETTING UP JOINT POLITICAL AND MILITARY
COMMANDS...

CONFUSED PICTURE OF ME DIPLOMACY WAS BROUGHT INTO FOCUS
DURING TODAY'S SEVEN AND ONE-HALF HOUR STOP IN DAMASCUS.

HAK IS TRYING TO PERSUADE ASSAD TO ACCEPT A NEW DEAL
BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL. SYRIANS ARE WARY....

ON LEAVING DAMASCUS, HAK SAID HE HAD HAD A "FULL AND
DETAILED REVIEW OF PROSPECTS OF PEACE IN ME" WITH ASSAD.

ALTHOUGH A JOINT COMMAND COULD ALSO DRAW PALESTINIANS
INTO FUTURE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS IN GENEVA, AMERICAN
ASSESSMENT IS THAT SUCH A MOVE WOULD NOT AID IN PEACE

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VALERIANI, NBC NIGHTLY NEWS, 3/15 FROM AMMAN: HAK
DECIDED TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY TO TOUCH BASE WITH OUT-
SIDERS IN THIS ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS BECAUSE SATURDAY
IS SABBATH IN ISRAEL AND NO WORK IS DONE. IN ADDITION
ISRAELIS WON'T BE ABLE TO GIVE HIM A FORMAL RESPONSE
TO EGYPT'S LATEST NEGOTIATING SUBJECTS UNTIL AFTER
THEY HOLD THEIR REGULAR WEEKLY CABINET MEETING TOMORROW.
HAK FLEW FIRST TO SYRIA. WHICH OPPOSES A SEPARATE
PARTIAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL. PM KHADDAM
DELAYED HIS DEPARTURE FOR CUBA TO BE PRESENT FOR
SECRETARY'S VISIT. DURING THE 4-HOUR MEETING WITH
PRESIDENT ASSAD, HAK REPORTEDLY FOUND NO CHANGE IN
SYRIAN POSITION. THIS STOP WAS ESSENTIALLY A HOLDING
ACTION AND WHILE HAK HAS NOTHING DEFINITE TO OFFER
SYRIA NOW, AMERICAN OFFICIALS DO NOT RULE OUT A SECOND
ROUND OF TALKS BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL SOMEWHERE DOWN
ROAD AFTER A NEW EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI AGREEMENT IS CONCLUDED.

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NO. 26

SUMMARY: SATURDAY MORNING GWERTZMAN, MILLS AND BERGER STORIES ALL FOCUS ON ISRAELI REACTION TO LATEST EGYPTIAN DISENGAGEMENT IDEAS. TIMES PAGE ONE HEADLINES "COOL" ISRAELI REACTION; SUN FRONT PAGE HEAD CALLED IT "CAUTIOUS" END SUMMARY.

1. NYTIMES, GWERTZMAN, JERUSALEM, 3/14: AN ISRAELI OFFICIAL SAID TODAY THAT EGYPT'S LATEST IDEAS FOR A NEW SINAI AGREEMENT FELL SHORT OF WHAT WAS NEEDED FOR AN ACCORD BUT ADDED THAT HE EXPECTED ISRAEL TO GIVE HAK CONCRETE VIEWS OF HER OWN TO KEEP NEGOTIATIONS GOING.

ISRAELI OFFICIAL SAID ISRAEL'S INITIAL EVALUATION OF SADAT'S "CONCRETE IDEAS" GIVEN TO HAK IN ASWAN LAST NIGHT, WAS GENERALLY UNENTHUSASTIC. BUT HE SAID HE EXPECTED GOVT TO RECOMMEND AND RECEIVE APPROVAL FROM CABINET ON SUNDAY, AUTHORIZATION FOR A MORE FLEXIBLE NEGOTIATING MANDATE.

THIS WOULD FORMALLY EMPOWER RABIN'S NEGOTIATING TEAM TO BEGIN DISCUSSING IN SPECIFIC DETAIL WITH HAK CONDITIONS IT WOULD DEMAND FOR GIVING UP TERRITORY EGYPT REGARDS AS A MINIMUM.

IN ASWAN, FM FAHMYSAID EGYPT WAS CONSIDERING POSSIBILITY OF EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI MILITARY COMMISSION UNDER NEW DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT.

LESS THAN HALF AN HOUR AFTER HAK HAD BRIEFED RABIN AND HIS TOP AIDES, ISRAELI OFFICIAL TOLD REPORTERS AT KING DAVID HOTEL THAT EGYPTIAN IDEAS WERE STILL UNDER STUDY, BUT INITIAL REACTION WAS THAT THERE WAS "A LONG WAY TO GO" BEFORE AGREEMENT COULD BE REACHED.

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OFFICIAL, WHO HAD BEEN AUTHORIZED BY RABIN TO MAKE HIS STATEMENTS, SAID WHILE A "FEW" EGYPTIAN RESPONSES WERE ACCEPTABLE, OTHERS WERE "INADEQUATE AND INSUFFICIENT" AND THAT, OVERALL "WE DID NOT FEEL WE HAD CONCRETE ANSWERS WE WERE LOOKING FOR."

COOL RECEPTION GIVEN SADAT'S IDEAS WAS NOT UNEXPECTED.
ISRAELIS WANTED TO DEFLATE OPTIMISM IN EGYPTIAN PRESS
THAT AN AGREEMENT WAS IMMINENT, AND RABIN CLEARLY WANTED
TO ASSURE ISRAELIS THAT HE WAS TAKING A FIRM STAND IN
NEGOTIATIONS.

PERHAPS INadvertently, ISRAELI REACTION EAused CONcERN TO
HAK'S PARTY. AMERICANS FEared THAT AN ovERly NEGATIVE
RESPONSE SEEMED TO BE EMANATING FROM JERUSALEM AND SADAT
MIGHT BECOME DIScOURAGED.

AN ISRAELI SOURCE SAID THAT HAK WAS SO CONCERNED ABOUT
REMARKS AT ISRAELI NEWS BRIEFING THAT HE TELEPHONED RABIN
TO COMPLAIN....

WHAT IRKED AMERICANS WAS THAT ISRAELIS PRIVATELY SEEMED
MUCH LESS NEGATIVE TOWARDEGYPTIAN IDEAS THAN WAS THEIR
SPOKESMAN PUBLICLY.

...ISRAELIS, LED BY RABIN, FM ALLON, AND DEFENSE MINISTER PERES, NOT HOSTILE BUT RECEPTIVE TO EGYPTIAN IDEAS. THEY DID NOT REJECT ANY IDEAS OUT OF HAND, AN AMERICAN OFFICIAL, SAID.

INSTEAD RABIN WAS REPORTED TO HAVE TOLD HAK THAT EGYPTIAN
VIEWS--MADE IN RESPONSE TO ISRAELI QUESTIONS RELAYED BY
HAK--WOULD BE GIVEN CLOSE STUDY AND THAT HE WOULD BE
INFORMED OF ISRAELI RESPONSE WHEN HE RETURNED TO JERUSALEM
SUNDAY AFTERNOON....

A SENIOR ISRAELI OFFICIAL SAID TONIGHT THAT HE EXPECTED
ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS WOULD BE EMPOWERED TO DISCUSS WITH-
DRAWAL FROM OILFIELDS AND PASSES IN RETURN FOR POLITICAL
CONCESSIONS BY EGYPT THAT WOULD MOVE EGYPT AND ISRAEL
CLOSER TO PEACE.

BUT HAK WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE TOLD OF ISRAELI UNHAPPINESS
WITH MUCH OF WHAT EGYPT HAS OFFERED, OFFICIAL SAID.
AMERICANS EXPECT THAT "IDEAS" THAT HAK RECEIVED FROM
ISRAELIS WILL INCLUDE QUESTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS ABOUT
EGYPTIAN VIEWS....

...IT HAS NOT BEEN CLEAR IN LAST WEEK --FIRST OF THIS MISSION
-- WHO MADE FIRST PROPOSALS. BUT ITSEEMS AS IF HAK TOLD
EGYPTIANS LAST WEEKEND IN ASWAN THAT THEY HAD TO MAKE
SOME INITIAL OFFERS TO ISRAEL TO MEET RABIN'S POLITICAL
CONCERNS, AND HE TOOK WITH HIM TO ISRAEL SOME INITIAL
IDEAS THAT WERE GIVEN COOL TREATMENT HERE.

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LATEST "CONCRETE IDEAS" WERE GIVEN BY SADAT AFTER LONG DISCUSSION YESTERDAY WITH HIS TOP AIDES. HAK NOW BELIEVES THAT ISRAEL MUST MAKE SOME "INPUT", INCLUDING WIDENING NEGOTIATING FLEXIBILITY ON PASSES AND OIL FIELDS TO KEEP TALKS MOVING.

2. BALTSUN, MILLES, JERUSALEM: ISRAEL REACTED CAUTIOUSLY YESTERDAY TO NEW EGYPTIAN IDEAS FOR ME PEACE AGREEMENT, CALLING THEM "INSUFFICIENT OR EVEN UNSATISFACTORY." THAT SOMEWHAT CHILLY ASSESSMENT DISTURBED HAK...

...REPORTERS WHO ACCOMPANIED HAK WERE TOLD ON FLIGHT FROM EGYPT TO ISRAEL THAT SECRETARY THINKS "TIME HAS COME FOR ISRAEL TO CONSIDER" INCREASING TERRITORIAL CONCESSIONS IT IS WILLING TO MAKE....

ISRAELI OFFICIALS, SPEAKING PRIVATELY LATER, SAID COMMENTS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE REJECTION OF IDEAS RELAYED TO THEM THRU HAK FROM SADAT OF EGYPT. RATHER, THEY SAID, TONE OF CAUTION WAS AN ATTEMPT TO COUNTERBALANCE WHAT THEY CONSIDER A PREMATURE OPTIMISM FOSTERED BY REPORTS FROM EGYPT.....

SENIOR U.S. OFFICIALS BRIEFING REPORTERS WITH HAK PARTY AFTER ISRAELI OFFICIALS HAD SPOKEN SAID THEY HAD HEARD NO "EXPRESSION OF DISSATISFACTION" FROM ISRAELIS IN COURSE OF THEIR TALKS.

OFFICIALS WERE AFRAID THAT ISRAELI REMARKS MIGHT BE INTERPRETED AS REPRESENTING A DEPARTURE FROM U. S. POSITION.

THAT INTERPRETATION, THEY SAID COULD BE FALSE AND MIGHT ENDANGER SUCCESS OF NEGOTIATIONS.

HAK WAS UNDERSTOOD TO HAVE BEEN SO DISTURBED THAT ISRAELI REMARKS MIGHT BE MISINTERPRETED THAT HE CALLED RABIN IMMEDIATELY AFTER HEARING ABOUT THEM.

SENIOR U. S. OFFICIAL SAID THAT THERE IS "NO DIFFERENCE.. BETWEEN AMERICAN AND ISRAELI PERCEPTION OF PROBLEMS."

ACTUALLY, DESPITE SOME DIFFERENCES IN EMPHASIS, GENERAL DIRECTION OF ISRAELI REASONING WAS NOT ALL THAT DIFFERENT FROM HAK'S. ISRAELI OFFICIALS, LIKE HAK, SAID THAT TALKS HAVE NOW MOVED INTO A NEW PHASE, ONE IN WHICH TWO SIDES ARE DISCUSSING CONCRETE IDEAS FOR A NEW AGREEMENT.

AND WHILE INDICATING ISRAELI UNHAPPINESS WITH MANY OF IDEAS BROUGHT FROM EGYPT, THEY SAID THERE WAS SOME MOVEMENT "IN A FEW AREAS." THEIR MAIN POINT WAS NOT SO MUCH THAT TALKS ARE IN ANY WAY GOING BADLY AS THAT THERE IS A LONG WAY TO GO.

"WE FEEL," HE SAID, "THAT IT IS VERY BEGINNING OF PROCESS."

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HAK HIMSELF ALTHOUGH HE BELIEVES TALKS ARE PROGRESSING, SAYS THAT SUCCESSIS FAR FROM CERTAIN. "MY VIEW" HE TOLD REPORTERS ABOARD EGYPT-ISRAEL FLIGHT, "IS THAT WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS SLOWLY. I AM HOPEFUL THAT WE CAN COME TO AN AGREEMENT. BUT IT IS FAR FROM GUARANTEED."...

3. WP, BERGER, 3/14, JERUSALEM: HAK PRESENTED LATEST EGYPTIAN DISENGAGEMENT PROPOSALS TO ISRAEL TODAY, THEN TOLD REPORTERS IT WAS "PREMATURE TO PREDICT AN AGREEMENT."

"WE AREMOVING FROM DISCUSSION OF GENERAL PRINCPLES TO AN EXAMINATION OF CONCRETE IDEAS." "I AM PLANNING TO STAY IN AREA UNITL IT IS KNOWN WHETHER AGREEMENT IS POSSIBLE."

SUBDUED ATMOSPHERE IN JERUSALEM CONTRASTED WITH OPTIMISM IN ASWAN WHERE HAKMET WITH SADAT...

ONE OF ISRAELI NEGOTIATORS SAID THAT WHILE EGYPTIAN PROPOSALS DID NOT YET GO FAR ENOUGH, "CHANCES ARE STILL GOOD" FOR GEZTING A SETTLEMENT. BARGAINING PROCESS WAS JUST STARTING.

AFP QUOTED SENIOR U. S. OFFICIAL IN JERUSALEM AS SAYING IT WILL PROBABLY BE ANOTHER 10 DAYS BEFORE IT IS CLEAR WHETHER NEW DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT IS POSSIBLE.

SPEAKING AFTER 2-1/2 HOUR MEETING IN WHICH HAK PRESENTED EGYPT'S POSITION TO ISRAELI NEGOTIATING TEAM, ONE ISRAELI PARTICIPANT SAID "WHAT HE BROUGHT IS CERTAINLY AN INDICATION THAT EGYPTIANS ARE MOVING." BUT, "ON MAJOR ISSUES--LIKE NON-BELLIGERENCY--I DON'T THINK WE HAD A SATISFACTORY ANSWER."

...AMERICAN REPORTERS TRAVELING WITH HAK WERE TOLD THAT SOME OF POINTS THAT HAD BEEN RAISED BY ISRAEL IS IN PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS HAD, AT LAST, BEEN ANSWERED, ALTHOUGH HAK HAS NOT SAID THAT ANSWERS ARE SATISFACTORY. TALKS WERE SAID TO BE AT A CRITICAL JUNCTURE BECAUSE CONCRETE IDEAS ARE NOW NEEDED FROM ISRAEL.

EARLIER IN DAY REPORTERS TRAVELING WITH HAK FROM SADAT'S COUNTRY RESIDENCE IN ASWAN TO ISRAEL WERE TOLD THAT NEGOTIATIONS HAD REACHED POINT WHERE ISRAELI CABINET WOULD HAVE TO CONSIDEER WHETHER TO APPROVE A WITHDRAWAL FROM FORCES BEHIND SINAI MT PASSES AND OUT OF OILFIELDS.

WIRES

UPI FROM DAMASUC SAID HAK ARRIVED SYRIA SATURDAY FOR SECOND TRY AT STOPPING SYRIA "FROM FIGHTING NEW PEACE AGREEMENT HE IS TRYING TO NEGOTIATE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT." STORY SAID HAK "ALSO PLANNED TO HUNT FOR A WAY TO GET NEGOTIATIONS GOING LATER BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL--ALTHOUGH THIS NOW APPEARED UNLIKELY BECAUSE OF ISRAELI OPPOSITION, A SENIOR OFFICIAL ABORAD HAK'S PLANE

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KALB, EARLY MORNING, 3/15: HAK FLEW INTO DAMASCUS TODAY TO HEAD OFF SYRIAN EXPLOSION THAT COULD DISRUPT HIS MIDDLE MAN EFFORT TO ARRANGE A MAJOR SINAI AGREEMENT BETWEEN EGYP AND ISRAEL. SYRIA'S STRONG MAN RULER ASAD IS HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS OF SECRETARY'S EFFORT.... LAST SUNDAY WHEN HAK VISITED DAMASCUS FORFIRST TIME DURING THIS SHUTTLE, ASSAD THREW SOME KISSINGERIAN PHILOSOPHY AT HAK HIMSELF. HE SAID, ACCORDING TO ONE EAR WITNESS, THAT ISRAEL IS DOOMED. WHY? BECAUSE ASSAD EXPLAINED, THE U.S. WILL GROW TIRED OF SUPPORTING HER, JUST AS U. S. IS NOW TIRED OF SUPPORTING CAMBODIA AND SVN. THAT LOGIC ALMOST SOUNDED PLANTED, AS THOUGH HAK TOLD IT TO ASSAD SO THAT ASS COULD TELL IT BACK TO HAK AND HAK COULD THEN TELL IT TO ISRAELIS SO THAT THEY COULD LEAK IT TO PRESS AND THEN AMERICAN PEOPLE COULD SEE INNER WISDOM OF LONG RANGE DOMINOES; CAMBODIA FALLING IN

SOUTHEAST ASIA AND EVENTUALLY KNOCKING OVER ISRAEL IN ME. IT IS REALLY A FAR FETCHED SCENARIO BUT HAK SEEMS TO BELIEVE IT. HE IS DEEPLY DEPRESSED BY SPECTACLE OF U.S. TEARING ITSELF TO PIECES ONCE AGAIN OVER AN ISSUESUCH AS MONEY FOR CAMBODIA. WHEN ISSUES WAS GETTING AMERICAN TROOPS AND PRISONERS OUT OF INDOCHINA, HAK COULD SEE LOGIC OF ANGUISH, BUT IN HIS MIND--SINCE ISSUE WAS NO LONGER MEN BUT MONEY--HE CANNOT SEE LOGIC OF THOSE WHO SAY "NO MORE MONEY FOR CAMBODIA, NO MORE KILLING IN INDOCHINA, ENOUGH". TO HAK, IN AN ODD WAY, MANNER IN WHICH CAMBODIA FALLS, IF THAT BE HER DESTINY, BECOMES CRITICALLY IMPORTANT. HE USED TO SAY ABOUT SVN THAT WAY U.S. WITHDRAWS FROM SVN IS AS CRUCIAL AS FACT OF WITHDRAWAL ITSELF. HE IS NOW MAKING SAME ARGUMENT ABOUT CAMBODIA SO MANY LIVES LATER. GIVE CAMBODIA THE MQNEY, HE SEEMS TO BE SAYING, AND IF SHE THEN FALLS, THEN SO BE IT. AT LEAST WE SHALL LOOK AS THOUGH WE HAVE DONE OUR DUTY. THERE IS NO SIGN THAT HAK THINKS HIS NEGOTIATION IN ME WILL BE HURT BY A POLICY FAILURE IN SOTHEAST ASIA, BUT IT MAY TURN OUT THAT WAY AND HE THINKS BATTLEFIELD AND NOT NEGOTIATING TABLE WILL ULTIMATELY DETERMINE CAMBODIA'S FATE. HIS VISION IS BLEAK. INGERSOLL

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1. ABC: HKSMITH: IN JERUSALEM TODAY SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER PRESENTED TO ISRAEL WHAT HE CALLED CONCRETE NEW EGYPTIAN PROPOSALS ON PEACE, BUT THE FIRST PUBLIC ISRAELI REACTION WAS NEGATIVE. WITH MORE ON THE KISSINGER PEACE EFFORT, HERE IS ABC'S TED KOPPEL:

KOPPEL: KISSINGER'S MIDDLE EAST NEGOTIATIONS HAVE REACHED THE POINT WHERE THEY WILL EITHER BREAK OPEN OR BREAK DOWN. THE FIRST PUBLIC SUGGESTION CAME LAST NIGHT AT A KISSINGER-SADAT NEWS CONFERENCE IN ASWAN.

HAK: WE HAVE PASSED FROM EXAMINATION OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES TO THAT OF EXAMINING CONCRETE IDEAS. AND I SHA... NOW BE TAKING SOME OF THESE CONCRETE IDEAS TO ISRAEL TOMORROW.

KOPPEL: THEN, THE KEY QUESTION: DID KISSINGER EXPECT THAT THE ISRAELIS WOULD BE COUNTERING WITH SOME CONC. TE

IDEAS OF THEIR OWN?

HAK: I AM, OF COURSE, IN NO POSITION TO SPEAK FOR THE ISRAELI CABINET, BUT I WOULD EXPECT THERE WILL BE SOME CONCRETE ISRAELI IDEAS WHEN I RETURN NEXT TIME.

KOPPEL: THE TIME FOR SKIRTING THE ISSUE, IN OTHER WORDS, IS OVER. BY THE TIME KISSINGER RETURNS TO SADAT'S EMBRACE EARLY NEXT WEEK, HE WANTS TO BRING A MORE FORMALIZED ISRAELI NEGOTIATING POSITION WITH HIM.

TALK OF RETURNING THE ABU RUDEIS OILFIELDS AND THE MITLA AND GIDI PASSES HAS BEEN FLOATING AROUND FOR SO LONG NOW THAT IT SOMETIMES APPEARS AS THOUGH ISRAEL HAS MADE THE PROPOSAL FORMALLY. IT KASN'T. THIS SUNDAY, THOUGH, THE ISRAELI CABINET WILL HAVE TO BITE THE BULLET. THAT AT LEAST WAS THE IMPRESSION THAT SECRETARY KISSINGER WENT OUT TO MEET WITH THE ISRAELI NEGOTIATING TEAM THIS AFTERNOON. THE MEETING WAS SCARCELY OVER WHEN PRIME MINISTER RABIN'S CHIEF SPOKESMAN TOLD NEWSMEN THAT IN CERTAIN AREAS EGYPT'S RESPONSE LOOKS INSUFFICIENT, OR EVEN UNSATISFACTORY. AS KISSINGER RETURNED TO HIS HOTEL, THE ISRAELIS WERE MAKING IT CLEAR THAT THEY ARE NOT ABOUT TO

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INSISTENT THAT THEY NEVER EXPECTED TOTAL ISRAELI
ACCEPTANCE, JUST SOME SOLID COUNTER-PROPOSALS.
(THIS WAS 15 MINUTES INTO THE PROGRAM.)

2. NBC: (7 MINUTES INTO THE PROGRAM) CHANCELLOR:
SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER IS IN JERUSALEM TODAY; HE HAS
GIVEN THE ISRAELIS THE LATEST EGYPTIAN PROPOSALS ON A

SINAI SETTLEMENT. AN ISRAELI OFFICIAL DESCRIBES THEM AS
INSUFFICIENT AND EVEN UNSATISFACTORY; AN AMERICAN OFFICIAL
SAYS HE HAD NOT YET HEARD ANY ISRAELI CRITICISM OF THE
PROPOSALS. HERE'S MORE ON THE KISSINGER STORY FROM
RICHARD VALERIANI, IN JERUSALEM.

VALERIANI: KISSINGER RETURNED TO ISRAEL TODAY, BELIEVING
THE ISRAELIS MUST COME UP WITH CONCRETE IDEAS OF THEIR OWN
TO KEEP THE NEGOTIATIONS GOING. AND IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT
THE TIME HAD COME FOR ISRAEL TO CONSIDER REVISING ITS
FORMAL PROPOSAL OF LAST DECEMBER, WHICH DID NOT OFFER TO
GIVE BACK AS MUCH TERRITORY AS EGYPT IS DEMANDING.

THE SECRETARY WENT DIRECTLY TO A MEETING WITH THE ISRAELI
NEGOTIATING TEAM IN JERUSALEM TO REPORT IN DETAIL ON HIS
TALKS IN EGYPT. AMERICAN OFFICIALS DESCRIBED THE MEETING
AS VERY CONSTRUCTIVE AND POSITIVE.

HAK: WE ARE MOVING FROM A DISCUSSION OF GENERAL PRIN-
CIPLES TO THE EXAMINATION OF CONCRETE IDEAS. I BROUGHT
THE EGYPTIAN CONSIDERATIONS IN THIS REGARD TO THE
ISRAELI NEGOTIATING TEAM, AND WE REVIEWED THESE, AS WELL
AS OTHER ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM IN GREAT DETAIL IN A
VERY CONRADELY, CONSTRUCTIVE AND POSITIVE SPIRIT.

VALERIANI: BUT A SPOKESMAN FOR PM RABIN SAID AFTERWARD
THAT AT FIRST GLANCE, ISRAEL REGARDED THE EGYPTIAN
RESPONSE IN CERTAIN, UNDEFINED AREAS, AS INSUFFICIENT
OR EVEN UNSATISFACTORY. AND HE EMPHASIZED THE
NEGOTIATIONS WERE ONLY AT A VERY EARLY STAGE, WITH
MANY QUESTIONS STILL OPEN.

LATER, HOWEVER, A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL INSISTED
THAT NO SUCH CRITICISM MAD BEEN VOICED BY ANY OF THE
OFFICIALS PRESENT AT THE MEETING IN JERUSALEM, NOR HAD
THEY BEEN ASKED FOR A REACTION, WHICH IS NOT EXPECTED
IN A FORMAL WAY UNTIL AFTER THE CABINET MEETS ON SUNDAY.

AT THE END OF THE FIRST AEEK OF THIS KISSINGER
SHUTTLE, THE EGYPTIANS ARE HIGHLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE
PROSPECTS FOR AN AGREEMENT. THE ISRAELIS ARE CAUTIOUS
AND NON-COMMITTAL. KISSINGER HIMSELF IS SOMEWHERE IN
BETWEEN. JUST BEFORE RETURNING TO ISRAEL, HE TOLD
NEWSMEN ABOARD HIS PLANE THAT PROGRESS IS BEING MADE,
BUT SLOWLY. HE SAID HE'S STILL HOPEFUL THAT AN AGREE-
MENT CAN BE REACHED BUT HE ADDED THAT IT'S FAR FROM
GUARANTEED.

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CBS: ROGER MUDD: SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER BACK IN JERUSALEM PRESENTED ISRAELI LEADERS WITH WHAT HE SAID WERE CONCRETE EGYPTIAN IDEAS FOR A NEW SINAI AGREEMENT,

BUT A SENIOR ISRAELI OFFICIAL CRITICIZED THE EGYPTIAN
PROPOSAL CALLING IT INSUFFICIENT OR EVEN UNSATISFACTORY.
(NO KALB)

WIRES

1. AP SCHWEID/JERUSALEM NITELEAD QUOTES HAK "SOME PROGRESS IS BEING MADE" BUT IT IS TOO EARLY TO PREDICT AN AGREEMENT. WE WILL CONTINUE THE SHUTTLE UNTIL AGREEMENT IS OR IS NOT

POSSIBLE. CITES AN ISRAELI OFFICIAL THAT TALKS NOT GOING WELL FOR ISRAELI SIDE "EITHER POLITICALLY OR MILITARILY." REPORTS OF EGYPTIAN OPTIMISM ARE NOT

REPEAT NOT CORRECT, SAID ISRAELI. "EGYPT HAS TO DO MORE
TO CREATE AN ADEQUATE FRAMEWORK FOR NEGOTIATIONS."
RESPONSE INSUFFICIENT OR UNSATISFACTORY.

SENIOR EGYPTIAN OFFICIAL IN ASVAN CITED READINESS FOR
FLEXIBILITY, BUT NO CONCESSIONS FOR PASSES AND OILFIELDS.
FLEXIBILITY REFERS TO DURATION OF WITHDRAWAL AND "CERTAIN
MILITARY ARRANGEMENTS" SADAT CITED SAYING MIXED
MILITARY PATROLS WERE BEING CONSIDERED.

2. UPI JERUSALEM NITELEAD REPORTS "CHILLY FIRST REACTION"

BY ISRAELIS TO CONCRETE IDEAS FROM EGYPT, BUT HAK STILL
HOPES TO KEEP NEGOTIATIONS GOING.

SENIOR ISRAELI OFFICIAL, NOT REPEAT NOT PRESENT AT
NEGOTIATING TEAM MEETING AITH HAK, PROVOKED REACTION
FROM "A MORE SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL," SAYING HAK
HEARD NO CRITICISM.

NEGOTIATIONS ONLY BEGINNING; DESPITE SOME PROGRESS THEY
COULD FAIL.

SAME AMERICAN BELIEVED HAK WOULD HAVE TO CARRY NEW
ISRAELI OFFER TO EGYPT ON MONDAY. ON PLANE EARLIER,
HE BELIEVED ISRAELI CABINET HAD TO MAKE AN OFFICIAL OFFER
ON WITHDRAWAL FROM PASSES AND OILFIELDS.

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NO. 23

SUMMARY: HAK RETURNS JERUSALEM. NBC-TV TODAY BROADCASTS BRIEF FILM EXCHANGE HAK AND SADAT. U.S. OFFICIALS ACKNOWLEDGE ISRAEL FACED WITH CRUNCH. ISRAEL'S GEN. GUR WARNS GUERRILLA BUILD UP BEFORE HAK'S ARRIVAL.
R/TV

1. FRANK BLAIR, NBC "TODAY": HAK FLEW FROM EGYPT TO ISRAEL THIS MORNING WITH SPECIFIC NEW PROPOSALS FROM SADAT FOR TROOP DISENGAGEMENT ON SINAI. REPORT BY SATELLITE FROM RICHARD VALERIANI:

IMMEDIATELY AFTER RETURNING TO JERUSALEM HAK WENT DIRECTLY TO A MEETING WITH ISRAELI NEGOTIATING TEAM TO REPORT ON HIS TWO DAYS OF TALKS WITH PRESIDENT SADAT.

...FOLLOWING LAST NIGHT'S THREE HOUR SESSION IN ASWAN, HAK GAVE FIRST REAL INDICATIONS OF PROGRESS.

SECRETARY KISSINGER: WE HAVE PASSED FROM EXAMINATION OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES TO THAT OF EXAMINING CONCRETE IDEAS AND I SHALL NOW BE TAKING SOME OF THESE CONCRETE IDEAS TO ISRAEL TOMORROW.

SADAT: I CONFIRM WHAT HAK SAID.

DO YOU EXPECT, ON BASIS OF CONCRETE IDEAS YOU ARE TAKING BACK TO ISRAEL. THE CABINET WILL BE IN A POSITION TO MAKE CONCRETE IDEAS OF ITS OWN ON SUNDAY?

SECRETARY: I AM, OF COURSE, IN NO POSITION TO SPEAK FOR ISRAELI CABINET, BUT I WOULD EXPECT THERE WILL BE SOME COMPLETE ISRAELI IDEAS WHEN I RETURN NEXT TIME.

IT'S HAK'S VIEW THAT ISRAELIS MUST COME UP WITH SOME CONCRETE IDEAS OF THEIR OWN TO KEEP NEGOTIATION PROCESS GOING, BUT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO DO THAT UNTIL AFTER THEIR REGULAR WEEKLY CABINET MEETING ON SUNDAY. EGYPTIAN SOURCES CLAIM THAT NEGOTIATIONS HAVE ADVANCED SO FAR THAT EGYPT AND ISRAEL ARE ALREADY WORKING FROM A DRAFT OF AN AGREEMENT, AND HAK IS SO CONFIDENT OF A NEW DEAL, THAT

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HE IS ALREADY TRYING TO ARRANGE A NEW ROUND OF TALKS BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL. BUT AMERICAN OFFICIALS CLAIM THAT IS NOT TRUE. JUST BEFORE RETURNING HERE, HAK TOLD NEWSMEN ABORAD HIS PLANE THAT PROGRESS IS BEING MADE, BUT SLOWLY. HE SAID HE IS HOPEFUL TWO COUNTRIES CAN REACH AN AGREEMENT BUT HE ADDED IT'S FAR FROM GUARANTEED.

2. KALB, TV, TEL AVIV: AS ONE AMERICAN OFFICIAL PUT IT, AS HAK'S PLANE LANDED HERE, "THE TIME HAS COME FOR ISRAEL TO REVISE HER POSITION." SECRETARY MEETS WITH TOP ISRAELI LEADERS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING HE HAS A PRIVATE DINNER WITH PM RABIN. HAK LEFT ASWAN WITH WHAT HE CALLED "CONCRETE IDEAS FROM SADAT FOR A MAJOR SINAI AGREEMENT". THE FACT THAT IT IS CONSIDERED "MAJOR BY EVERYONE SUGGESTS IT IS BASED ON IDEA THAT ISRAEL WILL GIVE UP TWO STRATEGIC PASSES AND OIL FIELDS IN SINAI DESERT. HAK IS HERE TO GET A MAJOR CONCESSION FROM ISRAEL, A CHANGE IN ITS FORMER POSITION FOR THE PASSES ISRAEL REQUIRES CLEAR MOVEMENT TOWARDS ENDING STATE OF WAR BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES. SADAT MIGHT HAVE GIVEN SECRETARY SEVERAL CLEAR INDICATIONS TO THAT EFFECT, SUCH AS DEFINING ELEMENTS OF NON-BELLIGERENCY WITHOUT CALLING RESULT NON-BELLIGERENCY. HAK IS MUTING HIS OWN INTEROPTIMISM IN PART, BECAUSE HE IS GOING TO SYRIA TOMORROW AND DOES NOT WANT TO RAISE SYRIAN SUSPICIONS ANYMORE THAN IS NECESSARY.

3. KOPPEL, ABC RADIO FROM TEL AVIV: BURDEN NOW RESTS SQUARELY ON ISRAELIS; HAK APPEARS TO FEEL THAT HE HAS EXTRACTED AS MUCH AS HE CAN FROM SADAT WITHOUT GETTING A CONCRETE RESPONSE FROM ISRAEL. WHAT LEAVES IT A LITTLE CONFUSING, IS THAT FOR WEEKS NOW, THERE HAS BEEN TALK OF ISRAEL'S CONDITIONAL WILLINGNESS TO GIVE UP ABU RUDEIS OIL FIELDS AND MITLA AND GIDI PASSES. THAT, HOWEVER, HAS ALL BEEN INFORMAL WITHOUT APPROVAL OF ISRAEL'S CABINET. CABINET MEETS NEXT ON SUNDAY AND AT THAT TIME THEY WILL EITHER HAVE TO "BITE THE BULLET OR CONCEDE LIKELY FAILURE OF NEGOTIATIONS."

WIRES

1. AP, SCHWEID, JERUSALEM: HAK RETURNED FROM EGYPT TODAY TO URGE ISRAELIS TO ENLARGE AMOUNT OF EGYPTIAN TERRITORY THEY ARE WILLING TO RETURN.

SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIALS TOLD NEWSMEN ACCOMPANYING HAK ON HIS FLIGHT FROM ASWAN THAT EGYPT HAD CONVEYED "SOME-THING ADDITIONAL." IF THERE IS TO BE A NEW SINAI AGREEMENT THERE MUST BE SOME 'INPUT' FROM ISRAEL, THE OFFICIAL SAID.

US OFFICIALS ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ISRAEL IS FACED WITH A "CRUNCH" SITUATION AND MUST EXPAND ITS INITIAL PROPOSAL IF AN AGREEMENT IS TO BE REACHED. THEY SAID ISRAELIS MUST CONSIDER REVISING THE TERRITORY IN SINAI DESERT THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO GIVE UP.

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ISRAEL ORIGINALLY OFFERED TO RETREAT UP TO 30 MILES BUT WANTED TO HOLD ON TO GIDI AND MITLA PASSES AS WELL AS ABU RUDEIS OILFIELD.

"WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS SLOWLY AND I AM HOPEFUL WE CAN COME TO AN AGREEMENT, BUT IT IS FAR FROM GUARANTEED", HAK SAID DURING FLIGHT FROM ASWAN.

"WE HAVE PASSED FROM EXAMINING GENERAL PRINCIPLES TO CONCRETE IDEAS WHICH I WILL TAKE TO ISRAEL," SECRETARY SAID THURSDAY NIGHT AFTER A 2-1/2 HOUR MEETING WITH SADAT. "I WOULD EXPECT THERE WOULD BE SOME CONCRETE IDEAS (FROM ISRAELIS). I THINK ALL PARTIES HAVE AN INTEREST IN MOVING AS RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE."...

BEFORE HIS ARRIVAL, ISRAEL'S CHIEF OF STAFF, GEN GUR, WARNED THAT A BUILDUP OF PALESTINIAN GUERRILLA FORCES IN SOUTHERN 'EBANON THREATENED RENEWED WARFARIN.

HE SAID THAT "SEVERAL THOUSAND" PALESTINIAN TROOPS IN AREA APPARENTLY WERE RECEIVING ORDERS FROM SYRIA AND COULD TRY TO DISRUPT HAK'S PEACE MISSION IF SYRIA INSTRUCTED THEM TO...

2. UPI, JERUSALEM: A SENIOR OFFICIAL ABORAD HAK'S PLANE TODAY PREDICTED ISRAEL WOULD HAVE TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING NEW IN RETURN FOR "CONCRETE" EGYPTIAN PROPOSALS ON AN INTERIM PEACE SETTLEMENT...

PI USES AP. "MAKING PROGRESS" QUOTE.

HAK REPORTED THURSDAY THAT SADAT HAD COME UP WITH "CONCRETE IDEAS" FOR HIM TO RELAY TO ISRAEL, BUT SENIOR OFFICIALS SAID THEY WERE SHORT OF A FORMAL DIPLOMATIC PROPOSAL WHICH WOULD HAVE TO BE ACCEPTED OR REJECTED.

HE SAID TWO COUNTRIES HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO PUT THINGS ON PAPER.

ISRAELI SOURCES HAVE SAID THAT BEFORE MAKING FURTHER PROPOSALS, ISRAEL WOULD HAVE TO KNOW WHAT POLITICAL CONDITIONS SADAT WOULD MAKE IN RETURN FOR ITS WITHDRAWAL FROM TWO STRATEGIC MOUNTAIN PASSES AND ABU RUDEIS OIL FIELDS.

THE SENIOR OFFICIALS ON HAK'S PLANE SAID HE BELIEVED NOW WAS TIME FOR ISRAELIS TO CONSIDER REVISING THEIR LAST PROPOSAL, FIRST MADE IN DECEMBER, OFFERING TO WITHDRAW SHORT OF PASSES AND OIL FIELDS.

HE ALSO SAID SADAT HAS ANSWERED SOME OF POINTS RAISED PREVIOUSLY BY ISRAELIS, AND IT WOULD BE UP TO ISRAELIS TO DECIDE WHETHER ANSWERS ARE SATISFACTORY. HE SAID HE BELIEVED PROGRESS HAD BEEN MADE...

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1. WALL STREET JOURNAL REVIEW SECTION: CARRIES FEATURE KEATLEY FROM DAMASCUS REPORTING ASSAD IS LESS HOSTILE TO A ME PEACE SETTLEMENT THAN HE SOMETIMES SOUNDS. BUT HE CAN'T AFFORD TO BE TOO CONCILIATORY BECAUSE OF SHARP DIVISIONS WITHIN ARAB WORLD.

2. BALTSUN PAGE ONE CARRIES AP STORY.

3. NYTIMES, GWERTZMAN, PAGE 1, ASWAN: HAK SAID TONIGHT THAT HE HAD RECEIVED NEW IDEAS FROM SADAT THAT SHOULD ELICIT RESPONSES FROM ISRAEL AND ADVANCE NEGOTIATIONS FOR AN EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI DISENGAGEMENT IN SINAI PENINSULA.

AT A NEWS CONFERENCE WITH SADAT IN PRESIDENT'S VILLA, HAK SEEMED DETERMINED TO ALERT ISRAELI LEADERS...THAT HE HAD RECEIVED A PRECISE ENOUGH SET OF IDEAS FROM EGYPT TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR TWO SIDES TO BEGIN EXCHANGING FORMAL PROPOSALS...

LATER, HAK SAID HE DID NOT KNOW WHETHER LATEST IDEAS FROM SADAT WOULD BE ENOUGH TO INSURE AN AGREEMENT...

HAK SAID TONIGHT THAT HE AND SADAT, AND THEIR KEY AIDES, "HAD A VERY CONSTRUCTIVE AND FRUITFUL MEETING"...

... SADAT WAS EVASIVE ON SPECIFIC ISSUES. HE SAID IT WAS "PREMATURE" TO DESCRIBE HIS "CONCRETE IDEAS." ASKED IF HE WOULD AGREE TO ISRAELI INSISTENCE THAT THERE BE WRITTEN ASSURANCES BY EGYPT AGAINST STARTING A WAR, SADAT SAID:

"WE ARE NOT AIMING AT ALL AT STARTING ANY OFFENSIVE AGAINST ISRAEL, BUT ASSURANCES, MUST BE ON A RECIPROCAL BASIS. IT IS PREMATURE TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING LIKE THAT."

A REPORTER ASKED WHETHER HE WOULD AGREE TO AN ISRAELI PROPOSAL THAT THERE BE JOINT PATROLS, AS WELL AS UN PATROLS, TO INSURE AGAINST ANY VIOLATIONS OF CEASE-FIRE. HE SAID HE WOULD NOT EXCLUDE SUCH AN IDEA.

SADAT SEEMED TO SOFTEN HIS PREVIOUS POSITION THAT THERE HAD TO BE SIMULTANEOUS PROGRESS ON SINAI FRONT...

ALL ISRAEL HAS TO DO NOW, HE SAID, IS TO MAKE "A GESTURE OF PEACE" ON THREE FRONTS...

EMPHASIS ON "CONCRETE IDEAS" BY HAK WAS PART OF DIPLOMATIC LANGUAGE USED TO EXPLAIN PROGRESS IN NEGOTIATIONS.

ACTUALLY, AMERICAN OFFICIALS SAID ON SATURDAY THAT HAK HAD RECEIVED "PRECISE IDEAS" FROM SADAT TO BE TRANSMITTED TO ISRAEL, AND SADAT CONFIRMED THIS IN PRIVATE TO EGYPTIAN

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NEWSmen. BUT ISRAEL RESPONDED COOLY TO IDEAS AND REFUSED TO MAKE ANY OFFICIAL RESPONSE. HAK PREUMABLY WAS SIGNALING ISRAELI THAT EGYPT'S LATEST "IDEAS" SHOULD BE TAKEN MORE SERIOUSLY.

SADAT WAS ASKED ABOUT ISRAELI RADIO REPORTS OF NEW SYRIAN AND EGYPTIAN TROOP MOVEMENTS. HE DENIED THAT EGYPT WAS CARRYING OUT A MILITARY BUILDUP OR INTENDED TO VIOLATE JANUARY 1974 DISENGAGEMENT ACCORD...

4. WASHPOST, BERGER, PAGE ONE, ASWAN: NEGOTIATIONS ON A NEW AGREEMENT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL TOOK A SUBSTANTIAL STEP FORWARD LAST NIGHT, AS HAK ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS TAKING CONCRETE IDEAS ON A SETTLEMENT BACK TO JERUSALEM WITH HIM FRIDAY.

SECRETARY SAID HE EXPECTED THAT EGYPTIAN PROPOSALS WOULD MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR ISRAELI CABINET, WHICH IS TO MEET SUNDAY, TO DEVELOP ITS OWN SPECIFICCOUNTER PROPOSALS.

SADAT TOLD REPORTERS THAT HE DID NOT RULE OUT POSSIBILITY OF JOINT ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN PATROLS TO SUPERVISE NEW AGREEMENT. UNTIL NOW, EGYPT HAS REFUSED TO CONSIDER COMBINED ISRAELI AND EGYPTIAN PATROLS. ISRAEL HAS SOUGHT THEM AS EVIDENCE OF AN EGYPTIAN COMMITMENT AS PROCESS OF DISENGAGEMENT MOVES FORWARD.

IN A BRIEF PRESS CONFERENCE, SADAT WAS ASKED WHETHER HE HAD CONSIDERED POSSIBILITY OF SUCH JOINT PATROLS AS PART OF THIS AGREEMENT.

"CERTAINLY," HE REPLIED.

FOLLOWING A 2-1/2 HOUR MEETING, HAK SHARING MICROPHONE WITH SADAT, MADE A BRIEF STATEMENT...

HAK SAID, THAT HE HAD NOT YET ARRIVED AT STAGE OF PRESENTING AMERICAN PROPOSALS THAT COULD BRIDGE GAP BETWEEN TWO SIDES.

IN HAK'S NEGOTIATING STRATEGY SUCH SUGGESTIONS ARE CUSTOMARILY PROFFERED AT LAST MOMENT. NOR WAS HAK CARRYING ANY MAPS OR PIECES OF PAPER, HE SAID.

"AFTER LONG DISCUSSIONS WITH PRESIDENT AND HIS ASSOCIATES I THINK I CAN REFLECT THEIR THINKING IN A RATHER PRECISE MANNER WITHOUT A DOCUMENT."...

NEW AGREEMENT IS EXPECTED TO GO WELL BEYOND LAST YEAR'S DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT...

EGYPTIAN SOURCES SAY NEW AGREEMENT, LIKE LAST ONE WILL ALSO BE SIGNED BY MILITARY OFFICERS RATHER THAN POLITICAL OFFICIALS. AT FIRST ISRAEL WAS DEMANDING THAT RANKING CIVILIAN OFFICIALS, SUCH AS FMS, SIGN DOCUMENT.

AMERICAN OFFICIALS HAVE SAID THAT ANY AGREEMENT WOULD HAVE TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN PHASES, APPARENTLY WITH SUC-CESSIVE ISRAELI WITHDRAWALS BEING MATCHED BY EGYPTIAN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC MOVES....

SADAT ALSO KNOCKED DOWN REPORTS FROM ISRAEL THAT EGYPT IS MOVING ITS TROOPS FORWARD IN PREPARATION FOR A NEW OFFENSIVE...

5. NYDAILY NEWS, CARTER, PAGE 5. ASWAN: HAK SAID TODAY THAT NEGOTIATIONS FOR A SECOND STAGE DISENGAGEMENT PACT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL WERE "GOING AHEAD SLOWLY," AS HE HAD PREDICTED, BUT WERE "DEFINITELY" MAKING PROGRESS.

WE ADDED THAT NEXT WEEK WE SHOULD KNOW WHETHER AN AGREEMENT IS POSSIBLE.

ONE IDEA BEING DISCUSSED WAS PHASED ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL OVER A PERIOD OF MONTHS FROM A LARGE PART OF SINAI, INCLUDING STRATEGIC MITLA AND GIDI PASSES AND ABU RUDEIS OIL FIELD.

AMERICAN OFFICIALS WERE DESCRIBED AS BELIEVING THAT, IF A NEW DISENGAGEMENT WAS AGREED UPON, ISRAELIS WOULD WANT A SLOW WITHDRAWAL IN PHASES TO GIVE THEM TIME TO CON-STRUCT A NEW DEFENSIVE LINE EAST OF PASSES.

...NEITHER SIDE HAS YET PUT FORWARD ANY CONCRETE PROPOSALS.

IT ALSO WAS CLEAR THAT MAIN STICKING POINT IN NEGOTIATIONS WAS WHAT, IF ANY, POLITICAL GUARANTEES, EGYPT WOULD GIVE IN RETURN FOR A FURTHER ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL IN SINAI.... INGERSOLL

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SUMMARY: STILL IN ASWAN, HAK GOES SIGHTSEEING WHILE EGYPTIANS STUDY POSSIBILITY OF A SINAI AGREEMENT. TOMORROW HE TAKES LATEST EGYPTIAN PROPOSALS TO ISRAEL. END SUMMARY

WIRES

AP, SCHWEID, ASWAN: HAK WENT SIGHTSEEING WITH HIS WIFE TO PHILAE WHILE TOP EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS STUDIED POSSIBILITY OF IMPLEMENTING A SINAI AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL IN STAGES.

AMERICAN OFFICIALS SAID HAK WAS TRYING FOR "A QUICK AGREEMENT", BUT ONE THAT COULD TAKE MONTHS OR EVEN YEARS TO BECOME FULLY EFFECTIVE.

HAK CHECKED IN WITH SADAT TONIGHT TO HEAR HIS LATEST PROPOSALS. HE TAKES THEM FRIDAY TO ISRAEL.

STAGED APPROACH IS VIEWED BY HAK AS A WAY TO OVERCOME BOTH EGYPTIAN AND ISRAELI RESERVATIONS.

ISRAELIS WOULD RETREAT UP TO 30 MILES IN SINAI BUT DELAY IN GIVING UP STRATEGIC GIDI AND MITLA PASSES AND ABU RUDEIS.

ADAT WOULD BE ABLE TO MOVE SLOWLY IN GIVING TANGIBLE EVIDENCE OF AN ACCOMMODATION WITH ISRAEL, A SITUATION CERTAIN TO DRAW FIRE FROM ARAB HARDLINERS.

U.S. OFFICIALS SAID A STAGED AGREEMENT, PRINCIPALLY A MILITARY PACT, WOULD BE SIGNED IN GENEVA, BUT CONSIDERATION OF ISRAELI WITHDRAWALS ON GOLAN HEIGHTS AND ON WEST BANK OF JORDAN RIVER WOULD BE POSTPONED.

SABAT MET WITH FAHMY AND GAMASY, AFTERWARDS AN EGYPTIAN SPOKESMAN SAID TALKS WERE "VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY WILL SET PATTERN THAT EGYPT WILL FOLLOW DURING NEGOTIATONS."

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UPI, ASWAN: HAK SAID THURSDAY HE IS MAKING SLOW BUT DEFINITE PROGRESS IN WHAT A U.S. SPOKESMAN CALLED "SERIOUS AND COMPLICATED" TALKS WITH SADAT ON SECOND STAGE AGREEMENT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL.

AFTER DAY OF SIGHTSEEING HAK MET SADAT THURSDAY NIGHT FOR MORE TALKS BEFORE FLYING BACK TO ISRAEL FRIDAY BEARING EGYPTIAN LEADER'S LATEST POSITION ON A TROOP DISENGAGEMENT ACCORD.

WALKING AROUND PHILAE, HAK TOLD REPORTERS, "WE ARE GOING AHEAD SLOWLY ASEXPECTED," ASKED IF THERE WERE PROGRESS, HE SAID: "DEFINITELY".

A KEY DISAGREEMENT STILL APPEARED TO BE OVER POLITICAL GUARANTEES FOR AN END TO STATE OF WAR...

AMERICAN OFFICIALS BELIEVE THAT ONE POSSIBILITY IS THAT ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL WILL BE PHASED OVER A CONSIDERABLE PERIOD OF TIME TO PERMIT ISRAEL TO BUILD A NEW DEFENSE LINE BEHIND PASSES, AND THAT MAY IN SOME WAY BE LINKED WITH SECURITY GUARANTEES.

IN A RELATED DEVELOPMENT, EGYPTIAN GOVT SOURCES SAID SYRIA HAS URGED EGYPT THRU A THIRD UNNAMED ARAB PARTY TO PRESSURE HAK INTO TRYING TO NEGOTIATE A SECOND ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM GOLAN HEIGHTS, AS WELL AS FROM SINAI.

EGYPT IS UNDERSTOOD TO BE URGING HAK TO SEEK GOLAN HEIGHTS AGREEMENT ALONG WITH SINAI IN ORDER TO BLUNT ASSAD'S OPPOSITION TO HIS CURRENT PEACE EFFORTS.

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LATIMES, RESTON, PAGE 16, ASWAN: HAK SAID WEDNESDAY BOTH ISRAEL AND EGYPT ARE WORKING SERIOUSLY TOWARD NEW DIS-ENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT IN SINAI.

HAK WHO HAS BEEN RELUCTANT TO TALK ABOUT PROGRESS OF NEGOTIATIONS LATELY, MADE HIS REMARK TO REPORTERS WHILE FLYING FROM ISRAEL TO EGYPT....

"I THINK BOTH SIDES WANT AN AGREEMENT AND BOTH SIDES ARE WORKING SERIOUSLY TOWARD AN AGREEMENT," HAK SAID. "WHETHER IT IS POSSIBLE TO MATCH REQUIREMENTS OF TWO SIDES, EVEN IF THEY BOTH WANT AN AGREEMENT, REMAINS TO BE SEEN."

HAK'S REMARKS APPEARED TO INDICATE THAT NEGOTIATIONS ARE ON TRACK AND MOVING AT ABOUT PACE HAK EXPECTED. WHILE ISRAELI SOURCES REMAIN SOMWHAT CAUTIOUS ABOUT CHANCES OF SUCCESS, MOOD ON EGYPTIAN SIDE IS ONE OF OPEN OPTIMISM.

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BEFORE HAK'S ARRIVAL, SADAT TOLD REPORTERS THAT THERE WAS
AT LEAST AN 80 PERCENT CHANCE THAT EGYPT AND ISRAEL WOULD
CONCLUDE A NEW INTERIM PEACE AGREEMENT.

...SECRETARY IS CARRYING ISRAELI "VIEWS, CONSIDERATIONS AND REACTIONS" TO PUT BEFORE SADAT. BUT IT WAS UNDERSTOOD THERE ARE NO SPECIFIC FORMAL PROPOSALS FROM ISRAELI SIDE AT THIS POINT IN NEGOTIATIONS.

...HAK FEELS HE WILL KNOW MORE PRECISELY DIMENSIONS OF OBSTACLES IN WAY OF NEW PLACE SETTLEMENT AFTER HE INCLUDES THIS SECOND ROUND OF SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY BETWEEN ASWAN AND JERUSALEM. ...

CLEARLY THERE ARE MAJOR PROBLEMS... GREATEST DIFFICULTY, ACCORDING TO RANKING U.S. OFFICIAL, REVOLVES AROUND PUBLICLY STATED POSITIONS OF BOTH SADAT AND RABIN.

RABIN HAS SAID HIS COUNTRY MUST GET A CONCRETE, FORMAL DECLARATION OF NON-BELLI CERENCY. SADAT HAS REPEATEDLY REJECTED THAT IDEA.

ACCORDINGLY, HAK IS ATTEMPTING TO WORK OUT SOME COMPROMISE
... HE BELIEVES PROBLEM IS SOLUBLE, BUT FEELS SOLUTION
MUST EVOLVE IN A WAY THAT WILL NOT CAUSE EITHER SIDE TO
BALK...

I;RAEL REPORTEDLY WANTS NOT ONLY A NON-AGGRESSION DECLARA-\TION, BUT ALSO A NUMBER OF OTHER STEPS THAT WOULD BEGIN
TO MOVE TWO COUNTRIES AWAY FROM DANGER OF SUDDEN WAR.

...GENEVA PEACE CONFERENCE AIMED AT A FINAL PEACE SETTLE-\MENT IN ENTIRE ME AREA IS THOUGHT LIKELY TO TAKE PLACE
THIS SPRING IF HAK MISSION IS SUCCESSFUL.

TELEVISION

1. ABC, SMITH/REASONER: REASONER (8 MINUTES INTO PROGRAM): HAK TOOK TIME OUT FROM HIS ME SHUTTLE TALKS TODAY TO DO SOME SIGHTSEEING. WHILE SECRETARY AND HIS WIFE TOURED TEMPLES OF PHILAE, EGYPTIAN AND ISRAELI LEADERS CONTINUED STUDYING WAYS OF IMPLEMENTING A NEW SINAI AGREEMENT. ISRAEL'S CHIEF OF STAFF SAID TODAY THAT SYRIA HAS BEEN DIRECTING A BUILD-UP OF ARAB FORCES AND EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT THERE COULD BE RENEWED FIGHTING ON ISRAEL'S NORTHERN FRONT WITH SYRIA.

2. NBC, CHANCELLOR: ISRAELI OFFICIALS SAID TODAY THEY HAVE TAKEN PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES BECAUSE THEY HAVE SPOTTED MOVEMENTS BY BOTH SYRIAN AND EGYPTIAN MILITARY UNITS. IN EGYPT, PRESIDENT SADAT SAID HIS ARMY WAS NOT PLANNING AN OFFENSIVE.

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3. CBS, MUDD (10 MINUTES INTO PROGRAM): HAK, STILL TRYING TO BROKER AN EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI SINAI AGREEMENT, HAS BEGUN WHAT WERE DESCRIBED AS SERIOUS AND COMPLICATED TALKS WITH SADAT.

KALB: HAK TOLD NEWSMEN THAT HE HAD RETURNED TO ASWAN TO MAKE FURTHER PROGRESS. AND, IN ALMOST 3 HOURS OF TALKS LAST NIGHT WITH SADAT, HE DID JUST THAT. HE TOLD EGYPTIAN LEADER, A MODERATE AMONG ARABS, THAT ISRAEL WILL AGREE TO GIVE UP TWO STRATEGIC PASSES AND OIL FIELDS IN SINAI IN EXCHANGE FOR AN EXPLICIT PLEDGE OF NON-BELLIGERENCY. SADAT REJECTED NOTION OF AN EXPLICIT PLEDGE BUT ACCEPTED IDEA OF ISOLATING EVIDENCE OF NON-BELLIGERENCY AND TRYING TO REACH AGREEMENT ON THOSE. SO LONG AS FINAL ARRANGEMENT IS NOT DECLARED NON-BELLIGERENCY, SADAT SEEMED READY TO MAKE A DEAL, AND, IN HAK'S VIEW, SO TOO ARE ISRAELIS. THESE ARE SOME OF ELEMENTS: DEMILITARIZATION OF ALL AREAS EVACUATED BY ISRAELIS; A PUBLIC PROMISE TO OBSERVE CEASE-FIRE ON LAND, SEA, AND AIR; EXTENDING LIFE OF UN OBSERVER FORCE FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME; REDUCING ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WARFARE BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES; AND OPENING SUEZ CANAL EVEN TO ISRAELI CARGO.

SO FAR THERE IS NO SOLID AGREEMENT ON THESE ELEMENTS BUT EXPLORATORY PHASE OF HAK'S EFFORTS IS CLEARLY OVER AND DETAILED NEGOTIATIONS HAVE NOW BEGUN. ONE THING IS ALREADY CLEAR: THE DEPTH OF ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL WILL BE DETERMINED BY DEGREE OF EGYPT'S COMMITMENT TO END LONG STATE OF WAR BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES.

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KALB, CBS RADIO (FIRST LINE REPT) FROM ASWAN-JERUSALEM SHUTTLE, THURSDAY, MORNING, MARCH 13:

THE MIDDLE MAN IN THIS NEGOTIATION IS HAK OBVIOUSLY, BUT MIDDLE MEN ARE THE 15 REPORTERS TRAVELING WITH HIM....

THE 15 REPORTERS HAVE REALLY TURNED OUT TO BE MIDDLE MEN BETWEEN PEOPLE'S AND OFFICIALS OF TWO COUNTRIES.... HAVE REALLY BECOME INSTRUMENTS OF NEGOTIATION ITSELF USED BY BOTH SIDES AND THE SECRETARY TO FURTHER THEIR OWN ENDS AND HIS MIDDLE MAN EFFORT, THERE IS NO ESCAPE. REPORTERS MUST DEAL WITH SOURCES TO GET INFORMATION AND SOURCES IN THIS CASE HAPPEN TO BE HIGH EGYPTIAN, ISRAELI AND AMERICAN OFFICIALS. SOURCES USE THE NEWSMEN JUST AS NEWSMEN USE THE SOURCES. THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN CASE. BUT THESE HAK SHUTTLES ARE DIFFERENT AND BASIC REASON THEY ARE DIFFERENT IS THAT REPORTERS TRAVEL WITH SECRETARY, THEY ARE ON HIS PLANE, THEY ARE CLOSE TO HIM, THEY ARE IN A WAY UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS OF HIS ENTOURAGE.... THE EFFECT IS AN UNINTENDED BLURRING OF LINE BETWEEN REPORTER AND OFFICIAL, AT LEAST

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IN OUTSIDER'S PERCEPTION. REPORTER AND OFFICIAL KNOW BETTER; EACH JEALOUSLY GUARDS HIS OWN PREROGATIVE, EACH SERVES HIS OWN CONSTITUENCY. BUT TO OUTSIDER WHO SEES REPORTER GETTING ON AND OFF HAK'S PLANE ALWAYS LOADED WITH CHOSEN NUGGETS OF INFORMATION DISPENSED BY AN UNNAMED HIGH AMERICAN OFFICIAL IT IS POSSIBLE TO LUMP REPORTER AND OFFICIAL INTO SAME AMERICAN SACK AND OVERLOOK DISTINCTION BETWEEN TWO. WHEN A REPORTER ARRIVES SAY IN ASWAN HE IS QUICKLY SURROUNDED BY HID EGYPTIAN COLLEAGUES WHO WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAK REALLY THINKS ABOUT NEGOTIATION. WHEN REPORTER ARRIVES IN JERUSALEM HE IS ALSO SURROUNDED BY HIS ISRAELI COLLEAGUES WHO WANT TO KNOW SAME THING....OFFICIALS IN ISRAELI GOVT ALSO SEEK OUT REPORTER TO FIND OUT NOT ONLY WHAT EGYPTIANS THINK ABOUT NEGOTIATION BUT WHAT HAK REALLY SAYS IN PRIVATE ABOUT NEGOTIATION, EGYPTIANS AND ISRAELIS. LIKEWISE OFFICIALS IN EGYPTIAN GOVT QUITE HIGH UP LINE FIND SAME REPORTR AND PUMP HIM FOR SAME INFO. THIS INTIMATE CROSS FERTILIZATION OF INFO IS UNIQUE AND IT POSES PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITY FOR REPORTER AND OFFICIAL, ESPECIALLY IN MIDST OF A VERY DELICATE NEGOTIATION. A LEAK IN MOST CASES CAN BE HARMLESS, A LEAK IN THIS CASE CAN MAKE OR BREAK NEGOTIATION AND IT IS ALMOST ALWAYS VERY SELF-SERVING. IT HAS BEEN QUITE A LESSON IN WHAT COULD BE CALLED SHUTTLE-JOURNALISM. INGERSOLL

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TOSEC 447

E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: OVIP (KISSINGER, H. A.)
SUBJECT: COMBINED MEDIA REPORT, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 13

NO. 28

SUMMARY: LIGHT COVERAGE. HAK BECOMES TOURIST. AL AHRAM REPORTS DEADLOCK MAY BE RESOLVED. UPI SAYS EGYPTIAN SOURCES REPORT ASSAD APPROACHED SADAT THROUGH THIRD PARTY TO PRESSURE HAK TO NEGOTIATE ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL IN GOLAN HEIGHTS.

RADIO

KALB, CBS RADIO FROM ASWAN: SECRETARY TOOK MRS. KISSINGER SIGHTSEEING TODAY. WALKING THROUGH 3000-YEAR OLD TEMPLES ON AN ISLAND NEAR ASWAN DAM, WHILE PRESIDENT SADAT TOOK HIS TOP AIDES TO A PRIVATE MEETING PRESUMABLY TO CONSIDER SOME KIND OF EGYPTIAN CONCESSION THAT WOULD REPRESENT A BREAKTHROUGH IN THIS NEGOTIATION, MAINLY THE DEGREE TO WHICH SADAT WILL GIVE ISRAEL POLITICAL CONCESSIONS AND END LONG STATE OF WAR BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES. LATER TODAY, SADAT GIVES HAK RESULT OF HIS DELIBERATIONS WITH FM FAHMI AND WAR MINISTER GAMACY. HAK OBVIOUSLY TRIED TO INFLUENCE RESULT DURING HIS LONG TALK WITH SADAT LAST NIGHT. HE

BROUGHT FROM ISRAEL THE FRAMEWORK FOR A NEGOTIATION AND THAT INCLUDES AN ISRAELI WILLINGNESS TO GIVE UP TWO STRATEGIC PASSES AND OIL FIELDS IN SINAI IN EXCHANGE FOR A PROPER PLEDGE OF NON-BELLIGERENCY, EVEN IF IT IS NOT CALLED THAT. KEY NOW IS WHAT SADAT CAN GIVE ISRAEL IN RETURN. ONE POSSIBILITY IS A PHASED AGREEMENT - ISRAELI PULLBACK OVER A SPECIFIC PERIOD OF TIME COORDINATED WITH A PROGRAM OF EGYPTIAN CONCESSIONS, SUCH AS REOPENING SUEZ CANAL AND PLEDGING A FORM OF NON-AGGRESSION. SO FAR AMERICAN OFFICIALS INDICATE NEGOTIATION IS ON TRACK AND PROGRESS IS BEING MADE.

WIRES

I. AP, CAIRO: CAIRO NEWSPAPER AL AHRAM INDICATED TODAY THAT HAK MAY HAVE RESOLVED DEADLOCK OVER ISRAEL'S DEMAND FOR AN EGYPTIAN NON-BELLIGERENCY PLEDGE IN RETURN FOR A FURTHER PULLBACK IN SINAI DESERT.

["FURNISHED MARCH 12 THAT DATED.\nFOR AN EGYPTIAN NON-RELIGIOUS BURDEN IS RETURN FOR A\nTHAT MAY HAVE RESOLVED DEBROKEN OVER ISRAEL. 2 DEMAND\n1. AP. CARGO: CIRCO NEWSPAPER AT ARAAM INDICATED TODAY", "Hires", "PROGRESS 12 BEING MADE.\nAMERICAN OBLIGATIONS INDICATE NEGOTIATION 12 ON TOUGH AND\nCANAL AND SIEDING A FORM OF NON-AGRESSION. 20 MAR\nA PROGRAM OF EGYPTIAN CONCERNS. SUCH AS REFORMING SUE\nBUTBACK OVER A SPECIFIC PERIOD OF TIME COORDINATED WITH\nRETURN. ONE POSSIBILITY IS A PHASED AGREEMENT - ISRAEL\nCALLED THAT. KEY NOW 12 WHAT SADAT CAN GIVE ISRAEL IN\nA PROPER SITION OF NON-RELIGIOUS. EVEN IF IT IS NOT\nSTRATEGIC 5/2262 AND OIL FIELDS IN SINAU IN EXCHANGE FOR\nTHAT INCLUDES AN ISRAELI WILLINGNESS 12 TO GIVE UP TWO\nBROUGHT FROM ISRAEL THE FRAMEWORK FOR A NEGOTIATION AND\nRESULT DURING HIS FIVE TALK WITH SADAT LAST NIGHT. WE\nAND WAR MINISTER GAMRY. NAK OBVIOUSLY TRIED TO INFLUENCE\nSADAT GIVES HAK RESULT OF HIS DELIBERATIONS WITH FM RAMI.\nEND FIVE STATE OF WAR BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES. FATER TODAY.\nWHICH SADAT WILL GIVE ISRAEL POLITICAL CONCERNS AND\nBREAKTHROUGH IN THIS NEGOTIATION. MAINTAIN THE DEGREE TO\nSOME KIND OF EGYPTIAN CONCERNS THAT WOULD REPRESENT A\nHIS 100 AIDES TO A PRIVATE MEETING PREVIOUSLY TO CONSIDER\nON AN ISLAND NEAR ARAAM CAM. WHILE PRESIDENT SADAT TOOK\nSIGHTSEEING TODAY. WALKING THROUGH 2000-YEAR OLD TEMPLES\nKALB. CS2 RADIO FROM ARAAM. SECRETARY TOOK MR2. KIRRINGER", "RADIO", "WEIGHTS.\nTO HIGHLIGHT HAK TO NEGOTIATE ISRAEL WITHDRAWAL IN SOUTHERN\nSOURCE: REPORT ASKED APPROACHED SADAT THROUGH THIRD PARTY\nREPORTS DEADLINES MAY BE RESOLVED. UPI SAYS EGYPTIAN\nSUMMARY: LIGHT COVERAGE. NAK BECOME TOURIST. AT ARAAM\nFOR AMR 22 BOR ANDERSON FROM 2/PH2\nNO. 58", "HEIGHTS.\nTO HIGHLIGHT HAK TO NEGOTIATE ISRAEL WITHDRAWAL IN SOUTHERN\nSOURCE: REPORT ASKED APPROACHED SADAT THROUGH THIRD PARTY\nREPORTS DEADLINES MAY BE RESOLVED. UPI SAYS EGYPTIAN\nSUMMARY: LIGHT COVERAGE. NAK BECOME TOURIST. AT ARAAM", "FOR AMR 22 BOR ANDERSON FROM 2/PH2", "NO. 58", "SUBJECT: COMBINED MEDIA REPORT, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 12\nTAGS: OVI (KIRRINGER, H. A.)\nE.D. files: N/A", "102EC 441", "UNCLT: 2\nSTATE 928268", "TO UNEDET 22AMN IMMEDIATE 0345\\8543\\8544\nFM: SECSTATE W2HDC\n2. 11/26/82 MAR 12 1:04\nDE: KURO 43841 81582\nRE: KURO 43841 81582\nUNCLASSIFIED\nCONFIDENTIAL\nFOR: J. H. M. K. J. M. K. J. M. K. J. M. K. J.

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SEMIOFFICIAL NEWSPAPER STRESSED THAT EGYPT IS NOW INSIST-
ING THAT A FIXED DATE OR MAXIMUM TIME PERIOD FOR RECONVEN-
ING GENEVA PEACE TALKS MUST ACCOMPANY ANY ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN
PACT.

AL AHRAM'S SHIFT OF EMPHASIS TO POST DISENGAGEMENT GENEVA
TALKS WAS TAKEN AS AN INDICATION THAT DISPUTE OVER GUARAN-
TEES OF PEACE MAY HAVE BEEN CLEARED UP.

ON HAK'S FLIGHT WEDNESDAY FROM ISRAEL TO ASWAN, IN UPPER
EGYPT, U.S. OFFICIALS SAID HAK WAS CONSIDERING A JOINT
AFFIRMATION BY EGYPT AND ISRAEL THAT NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES
SHOULD NOT SETTLE THEIR DIFFERENCES BY ACTS OF WAR. A
SIMILAR STATEMENT WAS CONTAINED IN FIRST DISENGAGEMENT
AGREEMENT HAK WORKED OUT A YEAR AGO BETWEEN TWO GOVTS.

ALL HAK WOULD SAY FOR RECORD WAS THAT HE THOUGHT EGYPT AND
ISRAEL "WANT AN AGREEMENT AND ARE WORKING SERIOUSLY TOWARD
IT. WHETHER IT IS POSSIBLE TO MATCH REQUIREMENTS OF TWO
SIDES REMAINS TO BE SEEN."

STATE DEPT SPOKESMAN ROBT ANDERSON SAID HAK AND PRESIDENT
SADAT HAD "VERY GOOD TALKS" WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN ASWAN.
"REVIEWED ALL ELEMENTS OF A POSSIBLE DISENGAGEMENT AGREE-
MENT" AND DISCUSSED "SERIOUS COMPLICATED SUBJECTS."

"THERE IS STILL MORE WORK TO BE DONE," ANDERSON WENT ON,
BUT ADDED: "BOTH PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY CONTINUE TO BE
HOPEFUL."

2. UPI, ASWAN: HAK TAKING TIME OUT FOR A MORNING SIGHT-
SEEING TOUR, SAID TODAY HIS TALKS WITH PRESIDENT SADAT ON
A NEW EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI AGREEMENT WERE MAKING SLOW BUT
STEADY PROGRESS.

REPORTERS ASKED HAK IF THE LATEST ROUND OF TALKS WERE MOVING
AHEAD. "DEFINITELY," HE REPLIED.

HE SAID HE WOULD BE ABLE TO TELL HOW MUCH PROGRESS WAS BE-
ING MADE NEXT WEEK AFTER ANOTHER SHUTTLE BETWEEN ISRAEL
AND EGYPT.

"WE ARE GOING AHEAD SLOWLY," HE SAID.

A KEY ISSUE IN TALKS STILL APPEARED TO BE AN ISRAELI DEMAND
FOR A FORMAL PLEDGE FROM EGYPT TO END STATE OF WAR AS A
PRICE FOR FURTHER ISRAELI TROOP WITHDRAWALS FROM SINAI OIL
FIELDS AND PASSES.

BUT U.S. OFFICIALS HERE DENIED AS UNFOUNDED REPORTS FROM
SOME QUARTERS THAT HAK HAD PROPOSED, AS A WAY OF SETTLING
ISSUE, A JOINT EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI AFFIRMATION THAT NEIGHBOR-
ING COUNTRIES NOT SETTLE THEIR DIFFERENCES BY ACTS OF WAR.

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EGYPTIAN GOVT SOURCES. MEANWHILE, SAID SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASAD APPROACHED SADAT THROUGH A THIRD ARAB PARTY AND ORIED HIM TO PRESSURE HAK TO TRY TO NEGOTIATE AN ISRAELI WINDRAEL IN GOLAN HEIGHTS AS WELL. SOURCES DID NOT IDENTIFY INTERMEDIARY. HAK AND HIS WIFE, NANCY, TOURED TEMPLES OF PHILAE, WHICH ARE BEING MOVED TO A NEARBY ISLAND JUST UPRIVER FROM ASWAN.

HAK AND SADAT MET WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR WHAT U. S. SPOKESMAN ROBT ANDERSON SAID WERE "VERY GOOD TALKS"...

NEWSPAPERS

1. BALT SUN, MILLS, PAGE ONE, ASWAN: HAK SAID YESTERDAY THAT HE IS CONVINCED AFTER ONE FULL ROUND OF ME SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY THAT BOTY EGYPT AND ISRAEL WANT A SECOND-STAGE DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT, BUT THAT IT IS TOO EARLY TO SAY WHEETHER TWO CAN BE BROUGHT CLOSE ENOUGH TO ACHIEVE ONE.

"I THINK BOTH SIDES WANT AN AGREEMENT," HAK TOLD REPORTERS ABORAD FLIGHT HERE FROM ISRAEL...

A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIALS ABOARD PLANE SAID HAK IS BRINGING EGYPTIANS THE "VIEWS, CONSIDERATIONS AND REFLECTIONS" OF ISRAELI GOVT FOLLOWING FIRST ROUND OF TALKS...

...AMERICAN OFFICIALS SAID THEY EXPECT TO KNOW AFTER COMPLETIO
OF THIS SECOND ROUND OF TALKS HOW WELL THEY ARE GOING.
AT THIS STAGE, AMERICAN AND ISRAELI OFFICIALS WILL ONLY SAY
THAT NO "UNANTICIPATED COMPLICATIONS" HAVE ARISEN SO FAR...

2. NYT, GWERTZMAN, PAGE 4, ASWAN: BEGINNING SECOND PHASE OF HIS LATEST DIPLOMATIC SHUTTLE, HAK AGassertED TODAY THAT BOTH ISRAEL AND EGYPT WANTED A NEW SINAI AGREEMENT BUT REMAINED AT ODDS OVER KEY ISSUES.

...HAK TOLD NEWSMEN ON HIS JET THAT AFTER COMPLETING INITIAL TALKS IN EGYPT AND ISRAEL HE BELIEVED NOT ONLY THAT THERE WAS A DESIRE FOR AN ACCORD BUT ALSO THAT "BOTH SIDES ARE WORKING SERIOUSLY ON THE PROBLEM"...

...ISRAELIS HAVE TREATED SADAT'S IDEAS COOLY. IT WAS UNDERSTOOD THAT RABIN DID NOT WANT TO APPEAR TOO EAGER TO RESPOND.

ISRAEL ALSO ASKED HAK TO SEEK FURTHER CLARIFICATION FROM SADAT ON CENTRAL ISSUE OF RECONCILING EGYPT'S DEMAND FOR RETURN OF SINAI TERRITORY WITH ISRAEL'S DESIRE TO END EGYPT PARTICIPATION IN ARAB WAR AGAINST ISRAEL.

AS A RESULT, HAK EFFORTS HAVE SLOWED SOMEWHAT AND HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH SADAT DURING THIS STOPOVER WERE NOT EXPECTED TO BE INTENSE...

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IN JERUSALEM LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING, HAK STUDIED IN DETAIL ISRAELI VIEW OF SITUATION.... RABIN UNDER PRESSURE FROM HIS POLITICAL OPPOSITION, HAS DECLARED THAT ISRAEL WOULD NOT AGREE TO RETURN OF EITHER ABU RUDEIS OIL FIELDS OR STRATEGIC MITLA AND GIDI PASSES--EGYPT'S MINIMUM DEMANDS-- UNLESS EGYPTIANS GAVE AN UNEQUIVOCAL PLEDGE OF NON-BELLIGERENCY, IN EFFECT TAKING THEMSELVES OUT OF WAR AGAINST ISRAEL.

SADAT, WHO HAS COME UNDER SYRIAN AND PALESTINIAN PRESSURE NOT TO MAKE SEPARATE DEALS WITH ISRAEL HAS REFUSED TO SIGN A DIRECT PLEDGE OF NON-BELLIGERENCY...

HAK BELIEVES THAT THIS SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC GAP IS SURMOUNTABLE.

3. NY DAILY NEWS, CARTER, PAGE 6, ASIAN: HAK RETURNED TO EGYPT FOR MORE TALKS WITH SADAT TODAY, HAVING SAID THAT HE STILL DID NOT KNOW WHETHER A SECOND-STAGE DISENGAGEMENT PACT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL WAS POSSIBLE.

DIFFICULTY IS ISRAEL'S INSISTENCE THAT IT WILL NOT GIVE UP MITLA AND GIDI PASSES IN SINAI WITHOUT A FORMAL PLEDGE FROM EGYPT TO END 26-YEAR-OLD STATE OF WAR BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES, AND EGYPT'S INSISTENCE THAT IT WILL NOT GIVE SUCH A PLEDGE...

...A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL ON HAK'S PLANE SAID ISRAELIS HAD NOT YET MADE A CONCRETE DECISION ON HOW MUCH THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO GIVE FOR ANOTHER PEACEMAKING STEP WITH EGYPT.

ISRAELIS HAVE DECIDED INSTEAD, OFFICIAL SAID, TO GO THRU A PROCESS OF ELABORATING ISSUES BEFORE THEY MAKE A FORMAL PROPOSAL.

BEFORE THEY CAN MAKE ANY SPECIFIC PROPOSAL, RABIN WILL HAVE TO WIN APPROVAL OF CABINET...

HAVING MET WITH RABIN AND OTHER ISRAELI OFFICIALS THIS MORNING, HAK SAID IN JERUSALEM THAT "NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN MY ESTIMATE OF THE SITUATION." HE HAS SAID THAT CHANCES OF AGREEMENT ARE ABOUT 50-50.

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LATE ADD TO UPI WIRE: IT WAS LEARNED THAT AMERICAN OFFICIALS BELIEVE ISRAEL'S WITHDRAWAL FROM SINAI, IF THERE IS AN AGREEMENT, WILL HAVE TO COME IN PHASES TO ALLOW ISRAELIS TO BUILD A NEW DEFENSE LINE BEHIND MITLA AND GIDI PASSES IN DESERT.

T: HIS HAS NOT YET COME UP IN NEGOTIATIONS. IT WAS LEARNED, BECAUSE FIRST THERE MUST BE AN AGREEMENT BEFORE TWO COUNTRIES....

COUNTRIES...

BECAUSE FIRST THERE MUST BE AN AGREEMENT BEFORE TWO
THIS HAS NOT YET COME UP IN NEGOTIATIONS. IT WAS LEARNED.

UNITED STATES IN DEMAND.

ISRAEL TO BUILD A NEW DEFENSE FINE BEHIND MILITARY AND
ISLAMIC DEMOCRACY IN ISRAEL. IT IS AN AGREEMENT. IT WILL HAVE TO COME IN PHASES TO ALLOW
OFFICIALS TO BELIEVE ISRAEL IS WITHDRAWN FROM ISRAEL. IF THERE
LATE ADD TO UP WISE, IT WAS LEARNED THAT AMERICAN
ADDITIONAL WIRE STORY

OF AGREEMENT ARE ABOUT 28-30.

IN MY ESTIMATE OF THE SITUATION, "WE HAD SAID THAT CHANGES
FROM ISRAEL TO END 50-YEAR-OLD STATE OF WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL
AND GIDI PAGES IN ISRAEL WITHOUT A NORMAL PLEDGE
DIFFICULTY IS ISRAEL'S INTELLIGENCE THAT IT WILL NOT GIVE UP
FROM EGYPT TO END 50-YEAR-OLD STATE OF WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL
AND GIDI PAGES IN ISRAEL WITHOUT A NORMAL PLEDGE
DIFFICULTY IS ISRAEL'S INTELLIGENCE THAT IT WILL NOT GIVE UP
FROM EGYPT TO END 50-YEAR-OLD STATE OF WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL
AND GIDI PAGES IN ISRAEL WITHOUT A NORMAL PLEDGE
DIFFICULTY IS ISRAEL'S INTELLIGENCE THAT IT WILL NOT GIVE UP
FROM EGYPT TO END 50-YEAR-OLD STATE OF WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL
AND GIDI PAGES IN ISRAEL WITHOUT A NORMAL PLEDGE
DIFFICULTY IS ISRAEL'S INTELLIGENCE THAT IT WILL NOT GIVE UP

BEGONE THEY CAN MAKE ANY SPECIFIC PROPOSAL. CABINET WILL
NORMAL PROPOSAL.

A PROCEDURE OF ELABORATING ISSUES BEFORE THEY MAKE A
ISRAELI CAN DECIDED INSIDE, OFFICIAL SAID, "TO GO THROUGH
NORMAL PROPOSAL."

WOULD BE WILLING TO GIVE FOR ANOTHER SEPARATE KNOCK OUT STEP WITH
HAD NOT YET MADE A CONCRETE DECISION ON HOW MUCH THEY
...A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL ON HAN'S PLANE SAID 12RAZLI2
SUCH A PLEDGE...

COUNTRIES, AND ISRAEL, IN DIFFERENCE THAT IT WILL NOT GIVE
FROM EGYPT TO END 50-YEAR-OLD STATE OF WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL
AND GIDI PAGES IN ISRAEL WITHOUT A NORMAL PLEDGE
DIFFICULTY IS ISRAEL'S INTELLIGENCE THAT IT WILL NOT GIVE UP
FROM EGYPT TO END 50-YEAR-OLD STATE OF WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL
AND GIDI PAGES IN ISRAEL WITHOUT A NORMAL PLEDGE
DIFFICULTY IS ISRAEL'S INTELLIGENCE THAT IT WILL NOT GIVE UP

PAGE BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL WAS POSSIBLE.
HE STILL DID NOT KNOW WHETHER A SECOND-GRADE DISAGREEMENT
EGYPT FOR MORE TALKS WITH SADAT TODAY, HAVING SAID THAT
2. MY DAILY NEWS, CARTER, PAGE 2, ADAM, HAN RETURNED TO
ABLE.

HAN BELIEVED THAT THIS SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC GAP IS A RUMMOUNT
... DIRECT PLEDGE OF NON-BELIEFERENCE...

NOT TO MAKE NEGATIVE DEALS WITH ISRAEL HAS RETURNED TO ISRAEL
SADAT, WHO HAS COME UNDER SYRIAN AND PALESTINIAN PRESSURE

ISRAEL...

UNLESS EGYPTIAN-GAME AN UNRELIABLE PLEDGE OF NON-BELIEF-
FACIAL MILITARY AND GIDI PAGES--SUGGEST MINIMUM DEMANDS-
NOT AGREES TO RETURN OF EITHER ASU AND RUESSIAN OIL FIELDS OR
FROM THE OFTEN POLITICAL ORGANIZATION, HAD DECLARED THAT ISRAEL WOULD
NOT BE A FAVORITE OF ISRAELI VIEW OF CIVILIZATION... WAIM UNDER PRESSURE
IN THE ISRAELI STATE OF MIGRATION, HAN STUDIED IN

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..."EGYPT IS OF OPINION THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO FIX DATE FOR HOLDING OF GENEVA CONFERENCE" AND THAT SETTING DATE IS LINKED TO AN AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL, PAPER SAID.

IN TEL AVIV, SOLDIERS ARE TAKING PRECAUTIONARY COUNTERMEASURES. NATIONAL RADIO SAID WAR MAY ERUPT IF HAK'S PEACE MISSION FAILS. IMMEDIATE 0241

"ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ARE CAREFULLY WATCHING FRONTIERS AND HAVE TAKEN NEEDED PRECAUTIONS FOLLOWING ARMY PREPARATIONS OF SYRIA AND EGYPT," SOURCES SAID.

THEY CITED CONTINUING CONSTRUCTION OF FORTIFICATIONS ON EAST AND WEST BANK OF SUEZ CANAL, THE PASSAGE FRIDAY OF AN EGYPTIAN DESTROYER THRU CANAL ENROUTE TO GULF OF SUEZ AND LARGE-SCALE SYRIAN ARMY MANEUVERS LAST WEEK.

RADIO REPORT SAID SOVIET UNION HAS "GREATLY STEPPED UP ITS SEALIFT OF WEAPONS AND SPARE PARTS TO EGYPT.

"MILITARY ANALYSTS HERE TEND TO TAKE QUITE SERIOUSLY RECENT WAR-LIKE STATEMENTS ISSUED BY SADAT AND HIS WAR MINISTER AND FM FAHMI." INGERSOLL

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SUMMARY: HAK ARRIVES ASWAN. REMAINS OPTIMISTIC SAYING BOTH SIDES WANT AGREEMENT.

WIRES

1. UPI, ASWAN: HAK SAID WEDNESDAY HE WAS CONFIDENT ISRAEL AND EGYPT WANT AN AGREEMENT ON A NEW MILITARY DISENGAGEMENT IN SINAI DESERT. BUT BOTH ISRAEL & EGYPT CAUTIONED THAT THEY WERE STILL FAR APART ON DETAILS.

HAK EXPRESSED OPTIMISM ABOARD HIS JET WHILE FLYING FROM TEL AVIV TO ASWAN TO PRESENT ISRAEL'S POSITION TO EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ANWAR SADAT WEDNESDAY NIGHT. HE WAS EMBRACED WARMLY AT ASWAN BY FM FAHMY BEFORE SADAT MEETING.

ONE WARNING OF DIFFICULTIES AHEAD CAME FROM ISRAELI FM ALLON AFTER A NIGHT OF TALKS WITH HAK IN JERUSALEM: "WE ALL FEEL WE ARE LABORING IN A VERY CRUCIAL PERIOD IN WHICH AGREEMENT MAY OR MAY NOT BE REACHED."

ALLON SAID HE AND HAK DID NOT RUN INTO ANY UNEXPECTED DIFFICULTIES BUT AN ISRAELI GOVT SOURCE CAUTIONED THAT "THE GAP BETWEEN POSITIONS STILL REMAINS WIDE" AND "ANYONE WHO EXPRESSES HIGH HOPES IS MISTAKEN."...

"A DECLARATION OF NON-BELLIGERENCY NOW, WHEN THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO GUARANTEE OF A FINAL AND TOTAL SETTLEMENT, CAN COME ONLY OVER OUR DEAD BODIES."

HAK SAID EGYPT COULD SHOW ITS "ORIENTATION TOWARD PEACE" BY PROMISING TO REOPEN SUEZ CANAL, LETTING NON-ISRAELI SHIPS CARRY M RAELI CARGO THRU WATERWAY AND DEMILITARIZING AREAS GIVEN UP BY ISRAEL.

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"I THINK THAT BOTH SIDES WANT AN AGREEMENT," HAK TOLD NEWSMEN WHILE FLYING FROM IEL AVIV TO ASWAN. "THAT SEEMS CLEAR TO ME AND BOTH SIDES ARE WORKING SERIOUSLY ON AGREEMENT. WHETHER IT IS POSSIBLE TO MATCH REQUIREMENTS OF TWO SIDES, THAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN."

HAK ALSO EXPRESSED OPTIMISM BEFORE LEAVING JERUSALEM WEDNESDAY MORNING. HE SAID, "NOTHING HAS CHANGED" HIS ESTIMATE OF CHANCES FOR NEGOTIATING A NEW AGREEMENT, AND HE SAID TUESDAY HIS ESTIMATE WAS THAT AGREEMENT WAS POSSIBLE.

HE ADDED, HOWEVYD, THAT "I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO ESTIMATE OF HOW LONG IT COULD TAKE" TO NEGOTIATE THE AGREEMENT.

A SENIOR OFFICIAL ABOARD HAK'S PLANE SAID SECRETARY WOULD HAVE A BETTER IDEA OF HOW LONG HE WILL BE IN THE ME THIS TIME FOLLOWING HIS NEXT ROUND OF TALKS IN ISRAEL. HOWEVER, HE ADDED HE DID NOT THINK IT WOULD TAKE AS LONG AS THE 33-DAY SHUTTLE THAT PRODUCED ISRAELI-SYRIAN DISENGAGEMENT OF LAST MAY....

...EGYPTIAN GOVT SOURCES SAID WEDNESDAY NIGHT EGYPT HAD OFFERED THIS SERIES OF CONCESSIONS TO ISRAEL:

- ANNIMMEDIATE REOPENING OF SUEZ CANAL AS WELL AS PER-MISSION TO LET SHIPS BOUND FOR ISRAEL TO TRANSIT WATERWAY PROVIDED THEY DO NOT SAIL UNDER ISRAELI FLAG.

- BEGINNING OF RECONSTRUCTION IN AREAS OF SINAI RECAPTURED BY EGYPT DURING OCTOBER 1973, ME WAR AS A SIGN THAT EGYPT IS GEARING FOR PEACE, NOT WAR.

- DEMILITARIZATION OF MOST OR ALL OF TERRITORY ISRAEL GIVES UP IN ANY FURTHER WITHDRAWAL.

ISRAEL HAS SAID THIS IS NOT ENOUGH. EGYPT HAS INDICATED IT IS ALL IT CAN GIVE. BOTH SIDES ARE LIMITED IN WHAT THEY CAN TAKE AND GIVE.

ISRAELI GOVT SOURCES SAID WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN JERUSALEM THAT ISRAEL IS NOT SATISFIED WITH EGYPTIAN PROPOSALS. THEY SAID THEY WERE TOO ONE-SIDED BUT ALTHOUGH GAP REMAINS WIDE ISRAEL IS "SLIGHTLY CLEARER NOW WHERE THE GAP IS AND JUST WHAT IT IS." ...

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...ISRAELI SOURCES SAID THERE PROBABLY WOULD BE AT LEAST ANOTHER TWO WEEKS OF SHUTTLING BEFORE THERE IS ANY AGREEMENT, AND IT WAS DOUBTED HAK COULD RETURN TO WASHINGTON BEFORE APRIL 1. RIGHT NOW THEY SAY THERE IS NOTHING NEW ENOUGH FOR ISRAELI CABINET TO MAKE ANY NEW DECISIONS ON FORMAL PROPOSALS.

2. AP, ASWAN: HAK IS CONSIDERING POSSIBILITY OF A JOINT AFFIRMATION BY EGYPT AND ISRAEL THAT NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES SHOULD NOT SETTLE THEIR DIFFERENCES BY ACT OF WAR, U.S. OFFICIALS SAID TODAY.

THIJ SORT OF A GENERAL STATEMENT IS BEING VIEWED AS ONE WAY OUT OF AN LOPASSE OVER EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT SADAT'S RELUCTANCE TO GRANT ISRAEL'S DEMAND FOR A PLEDGE OF NON-BELLIGERENCY, NEWSMEN WERE TOLD AS HAK SHUTTLED HERE FROM JERUSALEM.

PUBLICLY, ALL HAK WOULD SAY WAS THAT HE THOUGHT "BOTH SIDES WANT AN AGREEMENT AND BOTH SIDES ARE WORKING SERIOUSLY TOWARD IT."

"WHETHER IT IS POSSIBLE TO MATCH REQUIREMENTS OF TWO SIDES REMAINS TO BE SEEN."

SADAT SAID LAST WEEK THAT HE WAS NOT ABOUT TO SIGN A PLEDGE OF NON-BELLIGERENCY WHILE ONE ISRAELI SOLDIER OCCUPIED EGYPTIAN LAND.

"THIS WOULD BE AN INVITATION TO STAY ON MY LAND AND I AM NOT GOING TO ETEND IT," HE SAID.

WHEN HAK SHUTTLED BACK TO JERUSALEM, HOWEVER, ISRAELI OFFICIALS TOLD HIM THAT WITHOUT CONCRETE MOVES TO END STATE OF BELLIGERENCY THERE COULD BE NO WITHDRAWAL FROM STRATEGIC GIDDI AND MITLA MT. PASSES OR FROM ABU RUDEIS OILFIELDS IN SOUTHERN SINAI.

LATER, ABOARD HAK'S JET, A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL ACKNOWLEDGED ONE OPTION UNDER CONSIDERATION WAS HAVING EGYPT AND ISRAEL SIGN A GENERAL STATEMENT THAT WAR IS NOT SOLUTION TO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NATIONS.

FYI: TO DATE, HEARST PAPERS DELIVERED SPORADICALLY CARRY ONLY AP AND UPI COPY. LATIMES AND WASHPOST TODAY CARRIED WIRE COPY ANKARA.

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LATE ADD TO AP ASWAN STORY -- "HAK AND SADAT MET FOR 1 1/2 HOURS TODAY AND THEN FOR MORE THAN TWO HOURS WITH TOP AIDES -- U.S. AMBASSADOR EILTS AND UNDER SECY SISCO ON THE U.S. SIDE AND FM FAHMY AND WAR MINISTER GAMASY ON THE EGYPTIAN SIDE. 'THEY HAD VERY GOOD TALKS,' SAID ROBERT ANDERSON, THE U.S. SPOKESMAN. 'THEY REVIEWED ALL THE ELEMENTS OF A POSSIBLE AGREEMENT AND THEY DISCUSSED, AS YOU WOULD EXPECT, SERIOUS COMPLICATED SUBJECTS. THERE IS STILL MORE WORK TO BE DONE.' WITH EGYPTIAN PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMAN TAHSIN BASHIR AT HIS SIDE, ANDERSON WENT ON TO SAY, 'BOTH THE PRESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY CONTINUE TO BE HOPEFUL."

TV:

ABC-TV NIGHTLY NEWS -- CHANCELLOR: "KISSINGER MET TODAY WITH EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT SADAT. THE SUBJECT OF THE TALK WAS THE ANSWER THE ISRAELIS HAVE GIVEN TO SADAT'S MOST RECENT PROPOSALS ON A SINAI SETTLEMENT, BUT NEITHER KISSINGER NOR SADAT HAD ANY COMMENT TODAY."

NOTHING ON HAK SHUTTLE CARRIED ON ABC OR CBS.

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SUMMARY: PRESS REPORTS LIGHT. 1TH HAK INFORMING NEWSMEN
PROGRESS MADE TOWARD RENEWING TALKS RE CYPRUS & HAK RESUMING
SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY.

RADIO

1. MARVIN KALB, CBS RADIO FROM JERUSALEM: HAK RETURNS TO ASWAN AFTER ANOTHER DETAILED REVIEW OF ISRAELI THINKING ABOUT A MAJOR SINAI AGREEMENT. HE MET WITH PM RABIN AND OTHER TOP ISRAELI LEADERS. UP TO THIS POINT BOTH SIDES HAVE BEEN SWAPPING IDEAS ABOUT GENERAL PRINCIPLES. THE SECRETARY'S AIM IS TO MATCH UP THE PRINCIPLES AND THEN STRIKE FOR COMPROMISES. HE HAS MADE MORE PROGRESS IN THIS RESPECT THAN HE HAS ACKNOWLEDGED. FOR EXAMPLE, FOCUS OF THE NEGOTIATION HAS SHIFTED. IT USED TO BE ON WHETHER ISRAELIS WOULD GIVE UP TWO STRATEGIC PASSES AND THE OIL FIELDS IN SINAI, NOW THAT IS ASSUMED AND THE FOCUS HAS SHIFTED TO WHAT ISRAEL WILL GET IN RETURN. RABIN WANTS AN EXPLICIT PLEDGE OF NON-AGGRESSION, SADAT REFUSES TO MAKE IT EXPLICIT. THAT MIGHT SEEM MINOR BUT IN THIS NEGOTIATION IT IS OF FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE. ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF PROGRESS IS THAT EACH SIDE IS NOW PREPARED TO ADMIT THAT OTHER REALLY DOES WANT AN AGREEMENT.

WIRES

1. UPI, JERUSALEM: HAK TODAY HELD A "DETAILED EXAMINATION" OF ISRAEL'S IDEAS FOR A NEW TROOP DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT WITH EGYPT IN SINAI DESERT AND THEN TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO EGYPT.

HAK MET WITH ISRAELI NEGOTIATORS FOR TWO HOURS AND 15
MINUTES AND PLANNED TO FLY TO EGYPT LATER IN DAY, CARRYING
ISRAELI RESPONSES TO EGYPTIAN PROPOSALS FOR AN INTERIM
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AFTER MEETING WITH ISRAELI OFFICIALS, HAK TOLD NEWSMEN, "WE CONTINUED OUR VERY DETAILED EXAMINATION OF ELEMENTS OF A POSSIBLE AGREEMENT. IN THE NATURE OF SUCH AN EXAMINATION, WE CANNOT MAKE A PROGRESS REPORT EVERY DAY."

"THE TALKS ARE BEING CONDUCTED IN A VERY FRIENDLY AND VERY POSITIVE SPIRIT AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED MY ESTIMATION OF SITUATION."

HAK'S ESTIMATE OF SITUATION MONDAY WAS THAT AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT WAS STILL POSSIBLE.

ALLON SAID EARLIER, "WE ALL FEEL WE ARE LABORING IN A VERY CRUCIAL PERIOD IN WHICH AGREEMENT MAY OR MAY NOT BE REACHED."

IN ASWAN, GOVT SOURCES SAID TUESDAY EGYPT IS OPPOSED TO FORMALLY ENDING STATE OF WAR BUT IS WILLING TO TAKE STEPS TO SHOW ITS PEACEFUL INTENT. ONE SOURCE SAID EGYPT COULD SHOW ITS "ORIENTATION TOWARD PEACE" BY PROMISING TO REOPEN SUEZ CANAL, LETTING NON-ISRAELI SHIPS CARRY ISRAELI CARGO THROUGH WATERWAY AND DEMILITARIZING AREAS GIVEN UP BY ISRAEL.

NEWSPAPERS

I. NYT, GWERTZMAN, JERUSALEM, PAGE 5: HAK SAID TODAY IN ANKARA THAT AFTER EXTENSIVE TALKS WITH TURKISH LEADERS, HE BELIEVED PROGRESS HAD BEEN MADE TOWARD FINDING A SOLUTION TO CYPRUS CRISIS.

LATER, FLYING BACK TO ISRAEL WITH HAK ABOARD HIS 707, REPORTERS WERE TOLD THAT NEW TALKS BETWEEN GREEK & TURKISH CYPRIOTS WERE EXPECTED TO BEGIN SOON IN NICOSIA AND IN SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRY SUCH AS AUSTRIA.

SUCH TALKS WOULD MOST LIKELY BE FOLLOWED BY DIRECT TALKS BETWEEN GREEK & TURKISH FMS TO LEND THEIR WEIGHT TO A POSSIBLE SOLUTION, IT WAS SAID.

...DETAILS ON DISCUSSIONS ARE STILL FRAGMENTARY, DESPITE STATEMENTS TO PRESS IN ANKARA LAST NIGHT AND TODAY BY HAK AND TURKISH OFFICIALS.

...AMERICAN OFFICIALS DID NOT DENY SPECULATION THAT A MAJOR FACTOR IN APPARENT READINESS OF TWO SIDES TO TALK WAS GREECE'S WILLINGNESS NOW TO DISCUSS A POLITICAL DIVISION IN CYPRUS. THIS HAS BEEN LONG FAVORED BY TURKS BUT RESISTED BY GREECE AND GREEK CYPRIOTS.

OFFICIALS ABOARD HAK'S PLANE STRESSED THAT NEW APPROACH WAS AIMED AT FINDING A SOLUTION TO CYPRUS CRISIS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. THEY EMPHASIZED THAT LATEST HAK EFFORTS WERE NOT AIMED MERELY AT PERSUADING U.S. CONGRESS TO RESUME MILITARY AID TO TURKEY AND THEREBY AVERT A POSSIBLE RIFT IN TURKISH-U.S. RELATIONS.

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...THE AMERICANS HAVE URGED ALL SIDES NOT TO "INTERNATIONALIZE" THE NEGOTIATIONS. HAK APPARENTLY OBTAINED GREECE'S AGREEMENT NOT TO PRESS FOR SOVIET OR OTHER FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT IN NEGOTIATIONS.

2. NYDAILY NEWS, CARTER, PAGE 6, JERUSALEM: HAK RESUMED TONIGHT HIS ME SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY WITH A CONFERENCE WITH PM RABIN AND OTHER ISRAELI OFFICIALS BEFORE FLYING TO EGYPT TOMORROW FOR A SECOND ROUND OF TALKS.

...ISRAELI CABINET HELD SECRET DELIBERATIONS HERE ON EGYPTIAN PROPOSALS THAT HAK OUTEINED TO THEM AFTER HIS FIRST MEETING WITH SADAT AT ASWAN TWO DAYS AGO.

HAK PLANE FLYING TO ANKARA YESTERDAY, A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIALS SAID THAT THE ISRAELIS WERE COMING FACE TO FACE WITH WHAT HE DESCRIBED AS A "VERY MAJOR DECISION" IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH ARABS FOR A SECOND STAGE DISENGAGEMENT PACT ON SINAI FRONT.

INDICATIONS TONIGHT WERE THAT ISRAELIS HAD NOT YET DECIDED HOW FAR THEY WERE PREPARED TO GO TO REACH A NEW AGREEMENT WITH EGYPT. THERE WAS NO ANNOUNCEMENT AFTER CABINET MEETING.

...DESPITE ISRAELI INDECISION THUS FAR, ISRAELI STATE RADIO, KOL ISRAEL, SAID THAT THERE WAS OPTIMISM IN THIS

COUNTRY THAT HAK'S NEW ROUND OF SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY WOULD BRING ANOTHER STEP TOWARD PEACE....

THE POST SAID THAT HAK WOULD RETURN TO EGYPT WITH CAREFULLY NON-COMMITTAL ISRAEL REACTIONS TO EQUALLY NON-COMMITTAL EGYPTIAN "IDEAS AND ELEMENTS."

THE STATE RADIO SAID THAT ISRAEL WAS WILLING TO MAKE A DEAL WITH EGYPT BUT NOT WITH SYRIA.

3. BALT SUN, MILLS, PAGE 1, JERUSALEM: AMERICAN OFFICIALS SAID YESTERDAY THAT THEY BELIEVE GREEK & TURKISH CYPRIOTS WILL RESUME NEGOTIATIONS SOON ON A PEACE SETTLEMENT.

AND ONCE THE FORUM IS AGREED UPON THE TWO SIDES MAY QUICKLY DEVISE A FRAMEWORK FOR NEGOTIATIONS...

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TURKISH OFFICIALS USED OPPORTUNITY OF HAK'S ANKARA VISIT TO COMPLAIN BITTERLY ABOUT CONGRESSIONAL CUT-OFF OF AMERICAN ARMS TO TURKEY. BUT A SENIOR U. S. OFFICIAL ABOARD HAK PLANE YESTERDAY SAID HAK WAS NOT CONDUCTING HIS ANKARA TALKS WITH AN EYE TOWARD MAKING SUFFICIENT PROGRESS ON CYPRUS QUESTION TO CONVINCE CONGRESS TO REPEAL CUT-OFF.

IN FACT, REPORTERS ON PLANE WERE TOLD, HAK IS CONDUCTING HIS CYPRUS PEACE EFFORTS AS IF THERE WERE NO CUT-OFF. HAK WAS SAID TO SEE THAT HE WILL NEVER WIN OVER THOSE LEGISLATORS WHO LED MOVE TO CUT OFF MILITARY AID AS A PUNISHMENT OF TURKEY'S USE OF AMERICAN ARMS IN INVADING CYPRUS.

THE ADMINISTRATION NOW FEELS THAT IT COULD WIN REPEAL OF CUT-OFF IN SENATE AND HOPES HOUSE MAY BE COMING AROUND TO ITS VIEW. INGERSOLL

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1. EARLY AFTERNOON UPI FROM ANKARA REPORTS ESENBEL SAID HAK AGREED TO SEND HARTMAN TO BRUSSELS TO "ACCELERATE" DELIVERY BY AMERICA'S EUROPEAN ALLIES OF SPARE PARTS TO TURKEY, MOVE APPARENTLY INTENDED TO COMPENSATE TURK ARMED FORCES FOR HALT IN U.S. ARMS SHIPMENTS. ESENBEL ALSO SAID HAK EXPRESSED HOPE CONGRESS WOULD REVERSE DECISION IN "SEVERAL WEEKS TIME". REST OF DISPATCH QUOTES HAK DEPARTURE STATEMENT.

2. LATE AFTERNOON UPI FROM TEL AVIV SAYS HAK HELPED ARRANGE FOR EARLY RESUMPTION OF TALKS BETWEEN GREEK AND TURKISH CYPRIOTS BEFORE RETURNING TO MESHUTTLE. SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL ON THE PLANE SAID BOTH SIDES AGREED TO RESUME TALKS ON CYPRUS AND UN SECURITY COUNCIL WILL DECIDE WHERE AND HOW THIS WILL BE DONE. SENIOR OFFICIAL ALSO BELIEVES FRAMEWORK COULD BE FOUND THAT COULD LEAD TO SOLUTION ONCE THE TWO NATIONS AGREED ON FORUM FOR THE TALKS. UPI SAYS UN GREEK CYPRIOT DELEGATION DENIES ANY SUCH AGREEMENT REACHED TO RESUME TALKS.

KISSINGER RETURNED TO ISRAEL WHERE THERE IS REPORTED
SPLIT IN CABINET OVER ISRAEL'S NEXT MOVE IN NEGOTIATIONS
TO GET AGREEMENT WITH EGYPT ON FURTHER ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL
EAST OF THE SUEZ. A SENIOR OFFICIAL ON THE PLANE SAID HE
HAS NEVER SEEN ISRAEL MORE SERIOUS AND CONCERNED ABOUT ANY
NEGOTIATIONS THAN THOSE CURRENTLY.

3. AP'S SCHWEID FROM JERUSALEM SAYS HAK RETURNED TO ISRAEL PREPARED TO SETTLE INTO LONG ROUND OF PEACE SHUTTLES. AMERICAN OFFICIALS SAID ISRAEL AND EGYPT WERE NOW CONSIDERING THE SAME GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF A SETTLEMENT BUT IT COULD FALL APART OVER ANY ONE OF MANY ISSUES. IN AN AIRPORT STATEMENT IN ANKARA, THE SECRETARY SAID "PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE" TOWARD RESTARTING TALKS ON THE

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DIVIDED ISLAND OF CYPRUS. TURKISH FM ESENBEL SAID TALKS WILL BE REVIVED IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE. AT UN HEADQUARTERS NEW YORK, DIPLOMATS SAID HAK HAD PROPOSED FORMULA FOR RESUMING NEGOTIATIONS UNDER AUSPICES OF UN SYG WALDHEIM. THE DIPLOMATS SAID THE PROPOSAL HAD BEEN ACCEPTED BY TURKEY BUT REJECTED BY GREECE. ESENBEL STRESSED, HOWEVER, THAT TURKEY REJECTED THE MEDIATION "OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF OTHER COUNTRIES, FROM THE NONALIGNED BLOC OR FROM AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL."

4. LATIMES, P. I RESTON SAYS HAK Interrupting me sniftle, flew to ankara in hopes of achieving diplomatic break- through in cyprus crisis. On the way there Hak told reporters his talks with rabin and cabinet officers had "encountered no unanticipated problems" thus far. Hak also said search for new engagement agreement had reached point where he no longer could speak publicly on details and progress of the negotiations.

A senior U.S. official said the purpose of the Kissinger talks in Ankara was two-fold: to find a new forum in which Turkey and Greece can begin to negotiate, and a new framework wherein both sides can deal with the substance of the cyprus crisis.

Right now, the official said, neither side is talking about the same thing. He said he did not expect spectacular results to come from his meetings in Ankara, but he believed the U.S. must push its diplomatic efforts to resolve the cyprus dispute as far as possible.

Any eventual Greek-Turkish negotiations on Cyprus will have to involve more than just a "bare-bones agenda," the official said.

A senior American official said Kissinger intends to conduct his discussions here concerning Cyprus and the arms issue without regard for congress. But it appeared that Kissinger's renewed efforts at a break-through in the cyprus crisis were launched with one eye on the political maneuvering in congress.

The official said he believed the Senate now had the votes to rescind the Turkish arms embargo but that the situation in the House was less certain.

5. ABC NEWS -- NOTHING FROM KOPPEL -- REASONER REPORTS: ALONG WITH TODAY'S OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE IN PORTUGAL AND THE CONTINUED FIGHTING IN INDOCHINA, THERE WAS ALSO PROSPECT FOR PEACE FOR ONE TROUBLESPOT, CYPRUS. THE TURKISH FM SAID AFTER MEETING WITH HAK IN ANKARA THAT TALKS BETWEEN TURKISH AND GREEK CYPRIOTS WILL BE RESUMED VERY SHORTLY. BUT AT UN HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK

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DIPLOMATS SAID THAT GREEK CYPRIOTS ARE STILL RELUCTANT TO RESUME NEGOTIATIONS ON THE CYPRUS ISSUE. HAK RETURNED TO ISRAEL TODAY AFTER ENDING HIS TALKS IN TURKEY. EGYPTIAN AND ISRAELI LEADERS ARE CONSIDERING PROPOSALS TO BRING ABOUT A FURTHER DISENGAGEMENT OF FORCES IN THE SINAI AND HAK WILL RESUME SHUTTLING BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES TO TRY TO GET AN AGREEMENT.

6. **NBC NEWS -- NOTHING FROM VALERIANI -- CHANCELLOR REPORTS:** "HAK, SEEN HERE WITH THE TURKISH CHIEF OF STAFF SAID TODAY IN ANKARA THAT THE GREEK AND TURKISH CYPRIOTS HAVE AGREED TO RESUME TALKS ON THE FUTURE OF CYPRUS SOON, BUT JUST HOW SOON WAS NOT DISCLOSED. THEN HAK FLEW BACK TO ISRAEL FOR ANOTHER GO AT TRYING TO ARRANGE ANOTHER WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT. BEFORE HAK RETURNED, ISRAELI PM RABIN HELD A MEETING OF THE ISRAELI CABINET TO DRAFT A RESPONSE TO THE EGYPTIAN PROPOSAL. THE JERUSALEM POST REPORTED A SPLIT BETWEEN RABIN AND DEFENSE MINISTER PERES OVER THE ISRAELI STANCE. NO DETAILS."

7. **CBS NEWS -- NOTHING FROM KALA -- ROGER MUDD REPORTS:** "HAK RETURNED TO JERUSALEM THIS EVENING TO RESUME HIS PEACE SHUTTLE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT. ISRAELI LEADERS TONIGHT GAVE HIM THEIR TERMS FOR ANOTHER SINAI DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT AND TOMORROW HE TAKES THOSE CONDITIONS TO EGYPT. EARLIER HAK SAID HE HAD WON TURKEY'S APPROVAL FOR RENEWED PEACE TALKS BETWEEN THE DIVIDED GREEK AND TURKISH CYPRIOTS."

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SUMMARY: TURKISH-GREEK CYPRIOT TALKS RE CYPRUS TO RESUME. HAK REPORTS HE COVERED ALL ASPECTS OF POSSIBLE NEW AGREEMENT ON SINAI WITH ISRAELI LEADERS. SADAT SAYS POSSIBLE HAK MIGHT FAIL IN CURRENT MISSION. KALB REPORTS HAK IS VERY WORRIED ABOUT INDOCHINA.

R/TV - MARVIN KALB, CBS RADIO - ANKARA: HAK MET ONCE AGAIN WITH FM ESENBEL AND PM IRAN SEEKING ENOUGH DIPLOMATIC PROGRESS TO INFLUENCE THE UN VOTE ON CYPRUS TODAY AND TO SET-UP A NEW ROUND OF GREEK-TURKISH TALKS DESIGNED TO EASE THE CRISIS ON THE ISLAND. WHOEVER HIS ORIGINAL INTENTION, HAK HAS NOW BECOME A DIPLOMATIC MIDDLE-MAN BETWEEN GREECE AND TURKEY. HE IS GOING TO DISPATCH HIS EUROPEAN DEPUTY ARTHUR HARTMAN TO ATHENS TO REPORT TO THE GREEK GOVT ON HIS ANKARA TALKS. HAK MAY THEN BREAK INTO HIS ME SHUTTLE TO FLY TO BRUSSELS ONCE AGAIN FOR FOLLOW-UP TALKS WITH GREEK FM BITSIOS. THE SECRETARY OBVIOUSLY HOPES HIS EXHAUSTING DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS IN THIS CONNECTION WILL PERSUADE THE TURKS TO MAINTAIN AMERICAN MILITARY AND

INTELLIGENCE BASES HERE AND PERSUADE CONGRESS IN TURN TO LIFT THE BAN ON AMERICAN MILITARY DELIVERIES TO TURKEY.

KALB, CBS RADIO - ANKARA. EXCERPTS ... THE PALESTINIANS STRUCK IN TEL AVIV LAST WEEK, BUT ISRAELI CABINET HAS ASONISHED EVERYONE INCLUDING HAK BY HOLDING BACK IS FIRE, NO REPRISALS AS YET. EGYPTIAN PRESS OFFERED FAINT RHETORICAL SUPPORT FOR PALESTINIAN RAID BUT EGYPTIAN GOVT OFFERED EVEN LESS. SYRIAN GOVT WAS PREDICTABLY ON PALESTINIAN SIDE BUT IT OFFERED AN INTERESTING PROPOSAL FOR A UNIFIED SYRIAN AND PALESTINIAN COMMAND. AMERICANS AND ISRAELIS SEE DARK MOTIVATIONS IN THIS PROPOSAL AND THEY MAY BE RIGHT BUT SYRIANS CAUTION VISITING REPORTERS TO LOOK MORE CAREFULLY AT POSSIBILITY. THEY CLAIM THAT A

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UNIFIED POLITICAL COMMAND YIELDS POSSIBILITY OF OVER-
COMING PROBLEM OF PALESTINIAN REPRESENTATION AT A RECON-
VENED GENEVA CONFERENCE. ISRAELIS SAY THEY WILL NOT
ATTEND IF PALESTINIANS COME AS AN INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN
PARTY ADDING IF THEY COME AS PART OF JORANIAN DELEGATION.
ISRAEL WOULD HAVE NO OBJECTION. SYRIANS MAY BE WORKING
ON A VARIATION OF THAT THEME INVITING PALESTINIANS TO
COME AS PART OF SYRIAN DELEGATION. ISRAELIS WHO SEEM
VERY SOMBER ABOUT THIS NEGOTIATION ARE QUIETLY CONSIDER-
ING THIS POSSIBILITY THROUGH THEIR INITIAL PUBLIC REACTION
HAS BEEN NEGATIVE. . . . HAK SEEMS TO BE MAKING MORE PROGRESS
IN PRIVATE THAN HE IS PREPARED TO ADMIT IN PUBLIC, TRYING
IF POSSIBLE TO STRIKE FOR QUICK AND DRAMATIC RESULTS BE-
FORE THE TIMID, THE FRIGHTENED OR THE RADICALIZED ON BOTH
SIDES OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI FENCE JOIN FORCES UNWITTINGLY
PERHAPS TO FRUSTRATE ACHIEVEMENT OF A BREAKTHROUGH AGRE-
MENT ON THE SINAI...

WIRES

1. UPI. ANKARA: TURKISH FM ESENBEL ANNOUNCED TODAY AFTER MEETINGS WITH HAK THAT TALKS BETWEEN TURKISH AND GREEK CYPRIOTS OVER FUTURE OF CYPRUS WOULD BE RESUMED "VERY SHORTLY". HE CALLED A NEWS CONFERENCE TO ANNOUNCE MOVE AFTER HIS THIRD MEETING WITH HAK IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS. HAK'S MAIN AIM WAS TO GET TALKS GOING AGAIN...

SPEAKING AS HAK CALLED ON OTHER TURKISH LEADERS, ESENBEL TOLD NEWSMEN, "TALKS WILL BE RESUMED VERY SHORTLY BETWEEN TURKISH AND GREEK CYPRIOTS. IN TIME WHEN THERE HAS BEEN ENOUGH PROGRESS TURKEY WILL BE READY TO BEGIN NEGOTIATIONS WITH GREECE."

IN A VISIT MARKED BY SEVERAL ANTI-AMERICAN MANIFESTATIONS HAK MET TODAY WITH ECEVIT AND A NUMBER OF MINORITY PARTIES BEFORE SEEING PRESIDENT FAHRI KORUTURK.

POLICE SAID TODAY FIVE MEMBERS OF LEFTIST TURKISH LABOR PARTY WERE ARRESTED MONDAY PASTING POSTERS ON WALLS PRO-TESTING HAK'S VISIT. POLICE SAID TWO STICKS OF DYNAMITE WERE HURLED FROM A SPEEDING AUTO AT U.S. CONSULATE IN ISTANBUL MONDAY TO PROTEST HAK'S VISIT. ONLY ONE OF THE STICKS EXPLODED, CAUSING SLIGHT DAMAGE TO A WALL SURROUNDING BLDG.

2. AP, SCHWEID, ANKARA: H'AK RESUMES HIS ARAB-ISRAELI SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY TODAY AFTER URGING TURKISH LEADERS TO AGREE TO A REVIVAL OF NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN GREEK AND TURKISH CYPRIOTS IN NEW YORK OR VIENNA... BUT MEMBERS OF UN SECURITY COUNCIL WERE STANDING BY IN N.Y. IN HOPES THAT A MESSAGE FROM ANKARA WOULD PERMIT ADOPTION OF A NEW AND CONCLUSION OF THEIR THREE-WEEK DEBATE ON CRISIS RESULTING FROM PROCLAMATION OF A SEPARATE TURKISH CYPRIOT STATE.

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["ADDITION TO R/TV - MID MORNING, KALB, CBS-TV: HAK IS\nVERY WORRIED ABOUT INDOCHINA. HAK READS PRESSING INTELLI-\NGENCE REPORTS FROM CAMBODIA AND SVN. HE WAS JUST ABOUT\nGIVEN UP HOPE THAT CONGRESS WILL APPROPRIATE ENOUGH MONEY\nFOR MILITARY AID TO CAMBODIA, IN WHICH CASE HE EXPECTS\nGOVT OF LON NOL TO COLLAPSE FAIRLY SOON. BUT HIS MORE\nFUNDAMENTAL CONCERN IS ABOUT SVN., PARTICULARLY UPSURG\nOF COMMUNIST ATTACKS. HE SUSPECTS THAT HANCI MIGHT NOW\nBE OPENING A MAJOR OFFENSIVE WITH TWO PURPOSES AT LEAST:\nONE TO STRENGTHEN THE COMMUNIST MILITARY POSITION IN\nWESTERN BORDERS OF COUNTRY AND, TWO, TO DISCOURAGE U.S.\nFROM SENDING FURTHER ECONOMIC OR MILITARY SUPPORT TO\nSAIGON REGIME. HAK HAS ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT A COUNTRY'S\nNEGOTIATING STRENGTH IS DIRECTLY TIED TO ITS MILITARY\nSTRENGTH, MEANING THAT IF COMMUNISITS ARE WINNING ON\nBATTLEGROUND THERE IS NO WAY THE ANTI-COMMUNISTS CAN WIN\nANYTHING AT NEGOTIATING TABLE.", "NEWSPAPERS", "1. NYDAILY NEWS PAGE 2. CARTER, ANKARA - 3 COLUMN PIC HAK FLANKED ALLON AND KEATING - EXCERPTS - HAK FLEW TO TURKEY TODAY FOR TALKS ABOUT CYPRUS. GIVING ISRAELIS A DAY ALONE TO PONDER WHAT SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL DESCRIBED AS A VERY MAJOR DECISION.", "HAK HOPED TO GET A NEGOTIATING PROCESS STARTED BETWEEN\nTURKEY AND GREECE FOR SETTLEMENT OF CYPRUS PROBLEM, AND\nALSO TO SALVE TURKEY'S FEELINGS, HURT BY CONGRESS'\nCUT-OFF OF MILITARY ASSISTANCE.", "...ON THE FLIGHT FROM JERUSALEM TO ANKARA, HAK SAID THAT \"WE HAVE ENCOUNTERED NO UNANTICIPATED PROBLEMS\" IN NEGOTIATIONS FOR A SECOND-STAGE DISENGAGEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT.", "BUT A SENIOR OFFICIAL ON HAK'S AIRPLANE SAID THAT ISRAELIS\nNOW WERE COMING FACE TO FACE WITH A DIFFICULT DECISION.", "THERE WERE INDICATIONS THAT DECISION CONCERNED HOW TO\nBRING SYRIA INTO NEGOTIATIONS SO THAT IT WOULD NOT TRY\nTO TORPEDO THEM. ...JERUSALEM POST REPORTED THIS MORNING\nTHAT HAK WAS TRYING TO WORK OUT A BROAD INTERIM ME SETTLE-\nMENT THAT WOULD BRING IN SYRIA, RATHER THAN MERELY A\nSECOND-STAGE SINAI DISENGAGEMENT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL.", "OFFICIALS ON HAK'S PLANE DECLINED DIRECT COMMENT ON\nISRAELI NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT. BUT THE SENIOR OFFICIAL WHO\nSAID ISRAELIS FACED A TOUGH DECISION ADDED THAT \"IF WHAT\nNEWSPAPERS REPORT IS CORRECT, IT IS A SIGNIFICANT POLI-\NTICAL DECISION FOR THEM.\""]

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ISRAELI OFFICIALS HAVE ALSO EXPRESSED A NEW CONCERN. IT IS THAT THE SHAH OF IRAN, WHO PROMISED HAK DURING A MEETING IN ZURICH LAST MONTH THAT HE WOULD SUPPLY ANY OIL THAT ISRAEL LOST BY GIVING UP THE ASU RUDEIS OIL FIELDS, IN SINAI. MIGHT CHANGE HIS MIND...

2. NYT, PAGE ONE. GWERIZMAN, ANKARA: HAK COVERED ALL ASPECTS OF A POSSIBLE NEW EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI AGREEMENT IN MEETINGS THIS MORNING WITH WARY ISRAELI LEADERS. WE THEN FLEW TO ANKARA TO URGE TURKEY TO TAKE STEPS TO REOPEN CYPRUS NEGOTIATIONS.

THE SESSIONS WITH ISRAELI LEADERS WERE DESCRIBED BY ISRAELIS AND AMERICANS AS VERY INTENSE, SERIOUS AND TOUGH, WITH ISRAELIS EXPRESSING DEEP CONCERN TO HAK OVER THEIR NEED TO RECEIVE SIGNIFICANT POLITICAL CONCESSIONS FROM EGYPT IF THEY ARE TO GIVE UP STRATEGIC SINAI MOUNTAIN PASSES AND ECONOMICALLY-IMPORTANT OILFIELD IN NEXT ACCORD.

IN ASWAN, PRESIDENT SADAT SAID THAT THERE WAS A SERIOUS CHANCE THAT HAK MIGHT FAIL IN HIS CURRENT MISSION.

...ISRAELI LEADERS EXPRESSED PARTICULAR ALARM TO HAK ABOUT SUDDEN RECONCILIATION BETWEEN IRAN AND IRAQ, WHICH HAS BEEN FOLLOWED BY WHAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS IRANIAN ACQUIESCENCE IN A FULL IRAQI MILITARY CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY KURDISH REBELLION...

...IN DESCRIBING TALKS HE HAS HELD WITH ISRAELI AND EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS, HAK HAS BEEN CAUTIOUS AND HAS ADVISED REPORTERS TO TAKE ACCOUNT OF DIFFICULTIES INVOLVED.

"WE ARE IN BEGINNING OF A NEGOTIATION WHICH WILL GO ON FOR SOME TIME. WE ARE VERY CAREFULLY EXAMINING ALL ELEMENTS AND IDEAS THAT GO INTO AN AGREEMENT. TALKS WERE IN A FRIENDLY AND COMRADELY ATMOSPHERE. WE HAVE ENCOUNTERED NO UNANTICIPATED PROBLEMS."

HAK ALSO MADE AN UNUSUAL APPEAL FOR REPORTERS TO UNDERSTAND NECESSITY FOR ALL SIDES TO KEEP THEIR TALKS SECRET IN THIS PRELIMINARY STAGE OF NEGOTIATIONS.

IF THERE EVER WAS A TIME FOR "QUIET DIPLOMACY", HE SAID, IT WAS NOW, AND "YOU CAN'T EXPECT A DAILY PROGRESS REPORT DURING THIS PERIOD OF EXPLORATION..."

3. WP, BERGER, PAGE ONE, ANAKARA: HAK BEGAN A 24-HOUR DETOUR FROM ME TODAY, LEAVING ISRAELI GOVT TO FACE A "MAJOR DECISION" ON SIGNIFICANT STRATEGIC PULLBACK.

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THIS CHARACTERIZATION WAS MADE BY A MEMBER OF HAK PARTY.
...ISRAELI OFFICIALS SUGGESTED THAT NO DECISIVE ACTION
WOULD BE TAKEN AT THIS POINT, BUT THAT CABINET COULD BE
EXPECTED TO PONDER INFORMALLY VARIOUS CONTINGENCIES.

...REPORTERS WERE TOLD THAT HAK IS STILL TRYING TO ESTABLISH GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF MAIN ELEMENTS OF NEGOTIATIONS AND HAS NOT YET GOTTEN DOWN TO BRINGING TWO SIDES TOGETHER OR WRITING SPECIFIC CLAUSES.

... BUT DISCUSSIONS WITH DIPLOMATS INVOLVED IN TALKS LEAVE IMPRESSION THAT ISRAELIS AND EGYPTIANS ARE IN SUBSTANTIAL AGREEMENT ABOUT GENERAL SHAPE OF AN ACCORD, WHICH HAK IS SAID TO BE IN PROCESS OF REFINING.

...SADAT HAS SAID THERE WOULD BE HARD NEGOTIATIONS.

BBC REPORTED TODAY THAT EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HAS ALREADY
BEGUN EXTENSIVE MEETINGS WITH TOP MINISTERS AND ADVISERS
IN WHAT IS INTERPRETED AS A MOVETO PREPARE HIS PEOPLE

FOR A NEW DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL.

...REPORTERS WERE TOLD THAT HAK HAS NEVER FOUND ISRAELIS
MORE SERIOUS AND MORE CONCERNED.

...AFTER HAK HAS RESULTS OF ISRAELI DELIBERATIONS AND SEES SADAT IN ASWAN ON THURSDAY, REPORTERS WERE TOLD, NEGOTIATIONS COULD SPEED UP AND BECOME MORE CONCRETE.

"THIS IS A TIME FOR QUIET DIPLOMACY," HAK SAID.

4. BALT SUN, MILLS, ANKARA: HAK ARRIVED HERE YESTERDAY LEAVING ISRAELI LEADERS A DAY TO THINK OVER ELEMENTS THAT MIGHT GO INTO A NEW ME PEACE AGREEMENT WHILE HE GRAPPLES WITH CYPRUS QUESTION.

...HAK INDICATED TO REPORTERS ABOARD FLIGHT FROM JERUSALEM HERE THAT TALKS WITH ISRAELIS--LIKE THOSE EARLIER WITH PRESIDENT SADAT--HAVE GONE AS WELL AS HE HAD EXPECTED.

...HAK WARNED REPORTERS IN FACT TO EXPECT FEW DETAILS FOR SOME TIME ON PROGRESS OF TALKS.

... ON BASIS OF SCANTY INFO GIVEN TO REPORTERS, IT WAS DIFFICULT TO GUESS EXTENT OF ANY AGREEMENT TWO SIDES ARE TALKING ABOUT, OR EVEN WHETHER TI WOULD BE LIMITED TO TWO SIDES...

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...BUT AMERICAN OFFICIALS NEVER HAVE RULED OUT POSSIBILITY OF SOMEHOW ENGAGING SYRIA IN NEGOTIATIONS AS WELL OR AT LEAST OF DEVISING A FORMULA THAT WOULD LINK AN ISRAELI- EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT TO FUTURE ISRAELI-SYRIAN TALKS. BUT ISRAELIS HAVE STRONGLY OPPOSED THIS IDEA.

A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL SAID THE TALKS SO FAR HAVE CENTERED ON ESTABLISHING A GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF CHIEF INGREDIENTS OF AN AGREEMENT. ISRAEL AND EGYPT, THE OFFICIAL SAID, ARE NOT YET AT STAGE OF DISCUSSING SPECIFIC PHRASES.

OFFICIALS SAID HAK PARTY PROBABLY WILL BE BACK IN DAMASCUS SUNDAY TO REPORT AGAIN TO ASSAD, ON DEVELOPMENTS. INGERSOLI

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