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...sparkling Catawba juice and said, turning to Sadat, "To you, and the people you represent, the great people of the government of Israel." Amid gasps, Ford could only say lamely, "Egypt... excuse me." Later the two leaders reportedly laughed politely over the slip. Sadat's press secretary, Tahsin Bashir (see THE PRESS), cracked a barbed joke, "Perhaps President Ford is suggesting that Sadat will be President of Israel as well...
...square miles of the barren but strategic Sinai Desert, won during the 1967 war. On Egypt's part, it means virtual acceptance of a state of peaceful coexistence with Israel, 27 years and four wars after the founding of the Jewish nation. Says Egyptian Presidential Press Spokesman Tahsin Bashir: "If this process continues, relations between the Arabs and Israel will never be the same again...
...latest casualties in this battle of the spooks were killed two weeks ago, a day and 2,000 miles apart. On Cyprus, an Arab businessman named Hussein Bashir, 33, flipped off the light in his second-floor room in Nicosia's Olympic Hotel and climbed into bed. An explosion suddenly wrecked the room and killed Bashir. Although he traveled on a Syrian passport and headed a company called Palmyra Enterprises, Bashir is believed to have been the representative to Cyprus of Al Fatah, the principal Palestinian guerrilla organization. A bomb, apparently one that could be detonated electronically from...
...forged or stolen Israeli documents is that some conservative Arab governments have threatened to cut off support if Palestinians use their passports on anti-Israeli missions. The fedayeen are leaning more and more toward the desperate tactics of Black September. Yasser Arafat, eulogizing the dead Hussein Al Bashir, swore revenge "not on Cyprus, not in Israel and not in the occupied territories." That meant retaliation could come anywhere in the broadening battle of the spooks. Israeli officials are warning citizens abroad to take even more stringent security precautions than usual...
Died. Metropolitan Antony Bashir, 67, Archbishop of the 110,000-member Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church of New York and North America, a vigorous anti-Communist who in 1958, while in Damascus for the election of a new Patriarch, exposed a Soviet plot to seat its own Communist-oriented candidate by bribing some delegates with cash, gifts and free trips to Moscow, then led the fight to elect non-Red Patriarch Theodosius VI; of cancer; in Boston...