Word: arabism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Egypt's President Sadat and Jordan's King Hussein towards the hardliners' position of intransigence. Sadat has made it clear throughout the negotiations that without a change in the settlements policy he could not hope to gain acceptance of a peace agreement either in Egypt or the other Arab nations, and the Begin cabinet's refusal to compromise on this issue can only be seen as a diplomatically insensitive rebuff to the moderate Arab leaders without whose help Israel cannot hope to achieve a just and lasting peace settlement...
...slaying, by two Palestinian gunmen in the lobby of Nicosia's Cyprus Hilton, made him the first victim of Sadafs peace initiative toward Israel. But what infuriated Egyptians even more was that a commando expedition dispatched to capture Sebai's killers and free their eleven Arab hostages ended in disaster. Last week the commandos were ambushed by Cypriot national guardsmen. Fifteen of the 58 Egyptians who had flown into Cyprus' Larnaca airport aboard a C-130E military transport died in a swirling 50-minute airport gun battle. Their $6 million plane went up in flames...
...meeting of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization, chaired by Sebai. They were searching, as it turned out, for a way to hit Sebai. As one of the prominent Egyptians who had traveled with Sadat to Jerusalem last November, Sebai had been condemned as a traitor by Arab rejectionists. The moment came unexpectedly. Spotting Sebai in the hotel lobby, the Palestinians quickly checked out of their room, paid a bill of $608 in cash and ordered a cab. Then they approached Sebai at the hotel newsstand and squeezed off three pistol shots, which struck him in the head...
...assassins rounded up 16 Arab convention delegates as hostages-among them, ironically, two P.L.O. representatives. At Larnaca airport, they commandeered a Cyprus Airways DC-8 jet and set out on a fruitless journey to Djibouti and back (see following story...
...commandos home last week, Egypt treated the Larnaca raid as a famous victory, and in a sense it was. Sadat was praised for forcefulness not only by President Carter but even by the Israelis. But the Cyprus events, beginning with Sebai's assassination, were a grievous blow to Arab unity, especially for rejectionists like Arafat, who oppose Sadat's negotiations but would really like to close the gap between their position and his. Up to now Sadat has based his conversations with Israel not only on the recovery of Sinai but on Palestinian rights as well. Whether...