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Shopping List. The Israelis, as part of the accord, will get not only the new $20 million F-15 fighter but also the lightweight F-16 interceptor, which is the most maneuverable combat aircraft in the world. Kissinger also committed the Administration to considering, "with the view to giving a positive response," an Israeli request for a new model of the U.S. Pershing ground-to-ground missile...
...Sinai accord was roundly denounced by the more extreme Palestinian liberation groups, who believe that Egypt's President Sadat has sold them out. Last week some hard-line but amateurish militants went so far as to attack the agreement through an assault on one of Sadat's own diplomats. Though the seizure of Ambassador Mahmoud Abdel Ghaffar and two aides in Egypt's Madrid embassy ended in total failure 16 tense hours after it had begun, it did set an ominous precedent as the first use of Palestinian terror tactics against Egypt...
...belong to a Martyred Abdel Khader Husseini Group, named after a Palestine liberation fighter. The group is thought to be composed of militants from the "rejection front," which is opposed to a negotiated settlement with Israel. They telephoned their demands to a Spanish news agency. Describing the Sinai accord as "treason against the Egyptian people," they said they would kill their hostages if Sadat did not repudiate the Sinai agreement and abandon implementation talks on the accord that are underway in Geneva. The Iraqi and Algerian ambassadors, later joined by those from Jordan and Kuwait, rushed to help their captive...
Volunteer Hostages. Sadat's reaction was swift and strong. He denounced not the Sinai accord but the terrorists, and instructed his ambassador in Beirut to enlist the help of Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat in ending the incident peacefully. Arafat sent a message to the terrorists pointing out that an operation such as theirs did not serve the Palestinian cause. Meanwhile, Sadat had agreed to have them flown to Algiers if they did not harm their captives. The kidnapers agreed. When an Algerian Ilyushin-18 arrived in Algiers at 3:30 a.m., the three Egyptians, plus the Iraqi...
General Dynamics attracted the real pros: Senators Strom Thurmond and Howard Cannon and Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres, who may have about $2 billion in aid to spend on weapons if Congress approves the Israeli-Egyptian accord. They climbed into a mock-up cockpit of the F-16 fighter and were briefed on a computerized projection device...