The U.S. chief autonomy negotiator, Sol Linowitz, will visit Israel for two days later this month to take his leave of the autonomy talks and the Israeli ministers and sides who took part in them. Linawitz will resign his special diplomatic post when the Carter Administration leaves office in January.
The special envoy, together with his wife, will call on Premier Menachem Begin and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir. He will be the guest of honor at a reception given by Israel’s chief negotiator, Interior Minister Yosef Burg.
Presumably there will be some “business” intermingled with the social round, since the American envoy hopes to draw up an agreed document stating what has been achieved to date in the talks. Some work on that document has been proceeding in Washington this post week, at talks between Linowitz’s deputy, James Leonard, and Burg’s top aide, Haim Kubersky.
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