Begin, Sadat Meet at Egyptian Embassy for Last Minute Details

Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat were scheduled to meet at the Egyptian Embassy in Washington tonight to nail down the remaining differences between them before tomorrow’s signing of a peace treaty.

Begin, who announced the meeting during an appearance today on CBS-TV’s “Face The Nation” did not specify what the discussion would deal with except to say it was about “several problems” connected with the peace treaty. Begin requested the meeting with Sadat.

However, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, who was interviewed shortly afterwards on ABC-TV’s “Issues and Answers,” said the one remaining issue is the need for Israel to be assured it would receive oil from the Sinai fields it is giving up to Egypt under the treaty. “My personal view is that we Israel, really cannot sign the treaty without this issue being resolved and settled.” But he expressed the belief that “it will be resolved.”

The only issue mentioned by Begin was his proposal that Sadat come to Jerusalem and he go to Cairo for additional signings of the peace treaty Sadat has said that the Washington ceremony will be sufficient. Begin said today that President Carter had told him that Sadat had agreed to the additional ceremonies.

Begin reiterated today what he said after his meeting with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance last night in New York, that the treaty would be signed as scheduled at the White House tomorrow. He said his discussion with Vance had cleared up last minute hitches, but did not say how.

U.S. ASSUMES SOME RESPONSIBILITY

Dayan said that Carter had given assurances that the U.S. assumed some responsibility for seeing that the peace treaty is implemented, but the assurances did not include a defense treaty. “They are assurances and I think they are satisfactory,” he said, “but not as binding and not as extreme as we would have liked them to be. “He said should a violation occur the U.S. could take “political measures, economic measures, and — very far etched — military measures.”

Begin, in his interview, proposed that after the treaty is signed both Egypt and Israel open their borders to each other. “Let Egyptians come to Israel and they will have free access to their holy shrines, to AI Aksa Mosque,” he declared. “We shall go to Egypt. I suppose we will run to the pyramids in which our forefathers invested labor.” The Premier said if this happens “other nations in the Middle East will see that we can live together.”

When Begin was asked about the possibility of freeing prisoners after the treaty, he replied, “We don’t have prisoners of war. We have so called security prisoners, who carry out terrorist attacks. “We shall consider any possibility provided the security of Israel is not affected.”