Radio Cairo announced tonight that at President Carter’s intervention, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt has agreed that the joint Israeli-Egyptian military committee talks in Cairo will not be cancelled but will be resumed Saturday. They were originally to have reconvened tomorrow.
The crisis precipitated by Sadat’s sudden recall of the Egyptian delegation to the political committee in Jerusalem was eased further when Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ibrahim Kaamel rejected the idea that the talks have been broken off and said he was returning to Cairo only to report to Sadat. He said Sadat would decide the next move.
Kaamel made his statement to reporters after visiting Premier Menachem Begin at his home briefly tonight to say goodbye. The first contingent of the Egyptian delegation was due to leave at 3 a.m. local time. The plane was to return later to pick up the others. Meanwhile, it was learned that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance telephoned Sadat earlier from East Jerusalem urging him to cancel his recall order. But Sadat declined.
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