Table of Contents
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Important Dates xv
Prelude xv
The Ceremony
Last-Minute Jitters
The Emotion of Peace 3
The Celebration 13
Part 1 Back-Door-Channels
1 The Dashing General 23
Night Memories
We Meet Again
Forging of a Bond Enter Sadat
2 Sadat the Charmer 34
The Secret Meeting
An American Dream
Star-Quality General
3 The White House Connection 39
The Bonds Strengthen
Carter's Growing Involvement
"Nu, Sing!"
Israel Grows Leery
Weizman Comes to Talk
Reprisal and Respite
4 "Get Me Charney!" 55
Shake Hands with the Great
Senate-Hopeful Bradley
Personalities and Leaks
"Keep the Channels Open"
5 The Viennese Road to Cairo 62
6 Messages from "the Gilded Cage" 68
The Good News
7 After Camp David
Giving Peace a Chance 78
8 The Drive Toward Peace 90
A Sense of Destiny
Time for Reflection
9 A 50-50 Chance 102
Business Picks Up
Where Do We Go from Here?
10 Begin, One-on-One 113
A Trip for Peace
A Talk with Peres
11 A Presidential Visit 122
A Welcome Fellow Traveler
Awaiting the Chief
A Sprint for Peace
The Midnight Oil
Comes the Dawn
Peace in the Air
Enter Strauss
12 Arms Make the Man 144
Whisked to Washington
Back Down to Earth
Diplomatically Speaking
A Farewell to Arms
New York, New York
The Door Swings Wide
13 The Shcharansky Episode 161
Fulfilling a Promise
14 Conversations with Kreisky 167
Viennese Music
Lunch with Kahana
The Chancellor Speaks
An Assessment
Auf Wiedersehen
15 Negotiating the Channel 179
Sharks in the Potomac?
A Chill in the Air
16 A Shift to the PLO? 185
Strauss the Mediator
Varying Mediation Methods
Reflections from Strauss
Fiasco at the United Nations
A Shift Back to Peace
17 Carter and the Jews 196
According to the Gospel
An Equitable Attitude
The Fight for Soviet Jewry
Holocaust
'No' to the Boycott
Koch and Carter
Right or Reputation?
Another Mayor's View
The Carter View
All in the Family: The Good Guy
And the Bad Boy
18 A Change in the Communication Line 216
Into Lebanon
Part 2 The Opening of Doors
19 Counsel to a Senator 221
Joe, Sammy, and Frank
Subway to the Senate
The Happy Warrior
The Senator and the Party Secretary
On the Senatorial Trail
A Prophetic Ben-Gurion
A 'Cold' Golda
Mission to Minsk
20 The Yom Kippur War 239
To Israel, to War
21 Red Passports 255
To Russia with Apprehension
Next Stop, Minsk
Rosh Hashanah in Leningrad
And Home Again
22 An International Bank Crisis 274
Meeting the Decision-Makers
The Banking Duo
23 The Opening of Doors 283
The Door to Peace
The Door to Gratitude
The Door to Service
The Door to Political Support
The Door to the Future?
24 The Viennese Connection to Iran 291
Viennese Kosher
A Kreisky Proposal
From Vienna to Tel Aviv
The PLO Beckons
A Four-Point Strategy
25 Controversy at the U.N. 302
The Controversial U.N. Resolution
The Back Door to the U.N.
An Appraisal
26 One Year Later 314
A Year Remembered
Ezer Resigns
Public Person, Private Life
27 A Campaign and an Olive Branch 321
Sparks on the Campaign Trail
An Olive Branch Offered
"By My Spirit"
28 An "Unsung Hero" 330
An Interview
Window on the World
Reflections
Evaluations
Keeping the Faith
Appendix 343
Glossary 351
Index 355
