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...first assignment in early 1978 was to cover the Jerusalem Peace Talks between Begin and the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. House spent a tiresome morning waiting outside the conference room with a cluster of other reporters, only to have an official dictate a statement announcing that the talks had adjourned for the day. That afternoon, House did some sightseeing and retired to her hotel to get ready to go out to dinner. The phone rang. Her predecessor on the diplomatic beat, at that time foreign editor in Cairo, wanted to know why Sadat had returned home so early when...
...large, and two have died in prison. Most of the prisoners are accused of being members of a Muslim fundamentalist group known as al Jihad (Holy War), and many are linked with the violence that broke out in the Upper Egyptian city of Asyut following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat on Oct. 6, 1981. Nineteen of the defendants were among those sentenced last March in the Sadat murder trial. The charges this time, for which all but three of the prisoners face the death penalty: plotting Islamic revolution. During one recess in the proceedings, a bearded, white-robed defendant...
...chains have carefully catered to regional tastes as they have grown. W.R. Grace's El Torito goes so far as to grind its beef in Southwestern cities like Houston and Dallas and to shred it in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where diners prefer it that way. Says Anwar Soliman, executive vice president for Grace's restaurant group: "You have to look at all these subtleties. It's critical in some places, particularly the Midwest." Soliman predicts that Mexican restaurants will double their business by 1985. Many others are bullish as well. "I don't think...
...enlightening to contrast this ethereal international outlook with Carter's very practical role in what was unquestionably his greatest foreign policy success: the 1978 Camp David treaty. Justifiably proud of bringing Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to the bargaining table for their historic agreement, Carter describes Camp David in far more detail than any other event or issue in the book. And not surprisingly, his account is by far its most captivating and dramatic section...
After reading the excerpt from Jimmy Carter's memoirs, Keeping Faith [Oct. 11], I felt that the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize should not have been shared by Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. The award should have gone to Jimmy Carter. Alexandra C. Heavey Natick, Mass...