European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                12 the stars and stripes James Reston january 197b Mideast situation not As bad As if appears of off As a general Rule in nothing is Ever quite As Good or an bad As the prevailing mood of the this is Murphys second and the wild swings of opinion on the Middle East suggest that Murphy had a toe excessive Hopes about the Sadat begin talks have been As by excessive everything that was proclaimed to be wonderful before Christmas is now being denounced As being terrible and even Henry Kissin an old buddy of is recommending that we keep our shirts what has broken Down fun he Middle East is not but the the negotiations Haven hey Haven really Sadat and begin Haven but their superbowl Diplo with to cameras and instant re plays in every dining room and locker has and there is now a pause for so the question now is what the israeli and egyptian and the not just Sadat and Vance Are going to do with the and this is now under serious and even in the prevailing View within the Carter administration seems to be that washing ton must use its influence on both sides to keep the momentum but there is another View that everybody Day with and maybe what the Situa Tion requires is a few Days or even weeks of serious private and if a moratorium on Public since neither Side is ready to put according Lothy at least they should be willing to shut up and let everybody think before they begin talking Washington needs this pause almost much As Jerusalem and there is disagreement about what Secretary of Stele Vances role should be after his recent Mission in he Middle some officials Are arguing that this is a moment in the crisis Between begin and Sadat for the United states to keep a evening and defining the Carter recommendations for a others Are insisting that the United states should stand aside for a and not try to get Short Range but let begin and Sadat consider the consequences of their there is reason for saying that the Carter administration is beginning to listen a Little More to the people who Are recommending patience and the suggestion that begin and Sadat should Fly to argue out their differences with president for was quickly vetoed on the ground that it would be an embarrassment to cuter if Sadat and begin had not agreed in private and in Advance about what was going to be decided Olney met with the feeling is also growing among the major to the president thai it is wrong Lor Vance to get involved to settling tactical or procedural Points Ullh Sadat Thrif  Tell 8tjw meat the United states should stand apart on thew preliminary questions and Reserve influence for the critical Deci Sions on territories and boundaries and on Ibe ale of the there is reason for believing that the Otter administration does know what it Wanto to and what 11 will say to the israeli and egyptian at the official View in As i understand is thai Washington will say to begin quite in my w support the United nation Security Council Resolution now an before and we mean what it it Means giving up territories turd by Brad la the 1967 including the wot it does not talk about Ibe residents of Samaria and As one High official of the Carter administration put it it is territory we Are talking not that is the West Bank Israel and the West Bank is part of Resolution 242 that the United states government and to his official we have to say that self determination for the palestinians cannot be negotiated at the present time you have to be reason Able there must be a transitional phase there must be arrangements so that the israelis have a sense of Security and dont feel threatened by the changes we pro the officials in Washington most concerned with this Middle East crisis recognize that it will be hard Tor begin and Sadat to Swallow the compromises the Carter administration has in but they Are not pessimistic about the pros peels in the Long there is a feeling hat Sadat did not pull out of the Jerusalem talks out of pique or anger at begins rebukes to the egyptian foreign but that he was trying to bring the negotiations to a crisis and Force the United states to put pressure on the reaction is fairly Washington is not going to play this at some Point it la clearly going to lean on begin to accept Security Council Resolution and on Sadat to accept some interim Compromise Between self Rule and self de termination for the but not the feeling is growing in Washington that everybody needs a Little Lime and a Little 1 i fib Jesse Jackson Humphrey ignited consciences the weak and was no longer but the Strong and pure and identified the caller As Hubert seven Days after that the cancer that had been attacking his body and his will for nearly a year and a half would claim his n never claimed his when Humphrey and his Loving left to be at Home in Minnesota for they knew he would not return but going Home to die did not mean he intended to quit his lifes dream that All americans have equal shares of Justice and he knew he would never work in an office or Congress again so a special Long distance line was ordered into the hum in his favorite room near the fire Humphrey used the Lon distance Telephone to la to implore others to do the work he Mew he could no longer weve got to keep he said in one in be counselled patience and got to close he we must be forgiving of mistakes because we All make we have to dose ranks to get no other american of conscience worked or or As unselfishly As his soul and brain worked Tor the for for All the unto  he never cared to much about gelling tit new win Tom m on Aham my n Mil pm atm the Man m on Wotan Ion m in m fat it pm tend u Hummus vim Tan credit As getting the lob president Kennedy new Frontier and president Johnsons great society would have been shells without the substance of Humphrey programs and jobs that needed Hubert Humphrey to get done have touched More american lives than most give him credit 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