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...resemble an Egyptian Saturday Night Massacre. Sadat then named Butros Ghali, a member of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority and an economist with little foreign affairs experience, as Acting Foreign Minister. Presumably Sadat will have to name an experienced diplomat to the post. Two plausible candidates: Ambassador to Washington Ashraf Ghorbal and Esmat Abdel Meguid, Egyptian Ambassador...
...early for TIME'S "Man of the Year" nominations, but surely deserving consideration are Pakistani Ambassador Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan, Egyptian Ambassador Ashraf Ghorbal and Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi for their crucial role in the release of the hostages held by the Hanafi gunmen...
...beaten. That the toll was not higher was in part a tribute to the primary tactic U.S. law enforcement officials are now using to thwart terrorists-patience (see box). But most of all, perhaps, it was due to the courageous intervention of three Muslim ambassadors, Egypt's Ashraf Ghorbal. Pakistan's Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan and Iran's Ardeshir Zahedi...
...Israel is like a man balancing on one foot. The other foot must come down soon because Israel cannot remain in a state of full mobilization forever." So says Ashraf Ghorbal, Egypt's newly named ambassador to Washington. Ghorbal, who was Sadat's press adviser, speaks with some authority. Egypt feels that the Arab world has purged itself of the shame and humiliation of June 1967. Yet the Egyptians have not become arrogant. There is still self-doubt, expressed in mercurial shifts of public mood that ranges from a grim belief that war must resume to soaring projections...
...Egypt it will be Sadat's principal press adviser, Ashraf Ghorbal, 48, a tough-minded but genial expert on diplomacy who holds a doctorate in political science from Harvard (where he did his thesis on a favorite Kissinger subject, regional security arrangements) and who has served in Washington before. During the recent fighting, Egypt's propaganda was more realistic than it has ever been in 25 years of unrest and conflict. The generally factual reporting was due largely to Ghorbal's insistence...