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...reported without disagreement that according to Damascus radio, Israel had launched the attack. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger commented that while Syria's reputation for veracity was not high, it would be the first time in 20 years that Israel had not started a Mideast war. Only Alfred L. (Roy) Atherton, Sisco's deputy, challenged the consensus: "This is the last day in the year when they would have started something. And there were no signs...
...professed Israeli eagerness to reach a settlement, the two-day session at Cairo's elegant old Mena House hotel brought no tangible progress. Along with U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Alfred Atherton and Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis, the participants dutifully avowed their "dedication to the Camp David framework" in their closing statement. Still, Egypt and Israel remained as far apart as ever on the issue that has bedeviled the talks from the beginning: the size, scope and powers of the Palestinian body that is to govern the occupied territories once they become autonomous. The Israelis conceive of that body...
...Selwyn Atherton of Richmond, Mass., and James Garivaltis of Pittsfield, Mass., won the National Senior Men's Paddle Tennis Championships in Michigan...
...skirted a potential boycott by announcing that no other national leaders would be invited. In the end, alongside the Shah's widow Farah and their four children, the only foreign dignitaries who attended were former President Richard Nixon, exiled King Constantine of Greece, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Alfred Atherton and diplomats from Britain, France, China, Israel, Australia and Morocco. At al-Rifai Mosque, the Shah's silk-shrouded body was placed on its right side by Crown Prince Reza, with its head resting on a pillow of sand, according to Shi'ite custom. On his deathbed...
...Iranian militants, and the American missions in Islamabad and Tripoli are still scarred from last year's assaults, many staffers in Cairo question the wisdom of constructing an opulent symbol that could easily turn into a lightning rod for anti-American protests. Top aides to Ambassador Alfred Atherton argue that the building would represent a "blatant political statement," and some have already dubbed the proposed compound Tehran...