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...both men, the major problem has long been the attitude of Syria, which has charged that in seeking peace with Israel, Hussein and Arafat are defying the collective Arab will and following in the heretical steps of the late President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. In Hussein's view, Arab League backing would put pressure on Washington to take a more positive action on the peace initiative. The Jordanians also hoped that Hussein's demonstration of leadership could ease Washington's fears that Syrian President Hafez Assad will stifle the peace momentum...
...United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel saluted the U.N.'s 40th anniversary with a speech that experts considered to be one of the most accommodating public statements ever made by an Israeli leader on the subject of the peace process. Recalling the late Anwar Sadat's historic visit to Israel in 1977, Peres pledged to go to Jordan "or any location" to hold direct peace negotiations with King Hussein before the end of 1985. For the first time, Peres also gave partial support to Hussein's long-standing insistence on an international peace conference...
...good school." Jimmy Carter is depicted as so preoccupied with minor details that Linowitz learned to play dumb with him. To give the President a number, he recalls, "would have been the first step down an endless path" toward ever more detailed and irrelevant questions. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was calling Linowitz by his first name five minutes after they had met; Israel's Menachem Begin later informed him that Sadat did that with everybody. "He calls me 'Menachem,' " said Begin stiffly, "and I call him, 'Mr. President...
...time, Mahathir was trying to mend relations with Washington, poisoned by the jailing of his deputy and rival Anwar Ibrahim, and had hired a flock of high-powered lobbyists. Among those was Jack Abramoff, who attended the dinner thrown for DeLay. Abramoff had not registered his work for Malaysia either as a foreign agent or under the lobbying disclosure rules of Congress. But sources close to the matter tell TIME that he handled the Malaysia account for Greenberg Traurig throughout that summer, and contact with members of Congress on the trip could have required him to register. Abramoff's spokesman...
...that while constitutional and democratic reform were urgent, the process needed more time. Party leaders argued that it was too late to change the constitution before September to allow for candidates to run against Mubarak, who has been in power since the assassination of his predecessor, Anwar Sadat, in October 1981. Even members of opposition groups had expected that the constitution would not be changed before the upcoming elections, and their aim had been to create enough opposition noise to pave the way for future change...