Word: alexandria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
These were the early days of the fasting month of Ramadan. In the darkening sky over hot, humid Alexandria a crescent moon glided toward the evening star, a pattern suggesting an Islamic flag. When U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance arrived in that ancient Mediterranean city last week, few could imagine that Ramadan's omen of peace and tranquillity would bear fruit. Yet by the time Vance took off for Washington two days later, an extraordinary effort to revive the peace talks had begun. Like Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had accepted Jimmy Carter...
...arrival in Alexandria, Vance had waited six hours for the sun to set and for Sadat to break his daylong fast. At 8:50 p.m., the Egyptian greeted his guest and escorted him across the well-clipped lawn of the presidential summer home toward two wicker chairs. By that hour the Mediterranean seashore had disappeared into the night, but the palatial rest-house grounds were lighted by high-intensity arc lights...
...sufficient. Instead, Sadat denounced the concept as fraudulent and negative. The Egyptian President's tough stand stunned the Carter Administration. "We are very disappointed," declared State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter. After talking over the situation with President Carter, Vance announced that he would go to Jerusalem and Alexandria anyway in hopes of achieving a "better understanding of where we stand...
...decision arrived the next day, he rejected it. As a further sign of his fury, Sadat then ordered home the nine-man Israeli military mission that had remained in Egypt since the military talks broke off in February. Later in the week Sadat said in a speech in Alexandria that even though Begin was a "prevaricator," he wanted all Jewish people to know that he would not give up his peace initiative...
...talks with the Egyptians, Weizman said only that "various ways and possibilities for achieving peace" had been discussed and that the three men would meet again soon in Alexandria. The conversations between Sadat and Peres were strictly exploratory, since the Labor Party leader is in no position to speak for the Israeli government. Nonetheless, Sa dat and Peres did agree that the Aswan formula, drawn up by President Carter and Sadat last January, would provide an acceptable framework for a peace agreement. Among other things, the formula calls for participation by the Palestinians in determining their own future...