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...couple behaved like typical tourists, gliding down the Nile, clicking away at the Sphinx, even striking a matching pose in front of a pharaonic frieze at Luxor. Except, of course, that typical tourists do not have the Nile searched for explosives beforehand; neither do they lunch with Jehan Sadat, widow of Anwar, nor get together with President Hosni Mubarak. Visiting Egypt on a swing through the Middle East, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were reminded often of the 1978 Camp David accords. Strolling through a Cairo bazaar, he was greeted with shouts of "Welcome, Mr. Peace Man!" Mused Carter: "I could...
...defeat the tournament's number one and two seeds, both of whom had downed Phills at last year's Eastern. In the final match against top seeded John Dougherty of Syracuse. Phills scored a tie breaking takedown with nine seconds remaining to earn a 13-11 decision. Beforehand, Phills disposed of second seed George Fears of Navy by Scoring an unexpectedly quick pin at the 1:27 mark of the match...
Having won the day beforehand, Arafat patiently sat back and let the radicals speak their minds. For many delegates, however, the trauma of Beirut was enough to ensure their loyalty. Said a Palestinian delegate: "He was surrounded for 80 days in Beirut and as far as I am concerned, he won. We are all with him." Perhaps the most telling moment of the meeting came when Habash delivered a ringing denunciation of the "shameful and disgraceful Reagan plan." Said he: "We did not pay the price of blood in Beirut to record an American diplomatic victory." But then, turning...
...Phalangists and did not want to cooperate with them. But he had been overruled by Sharon, who had preferred to take the advice of the Mossad, the Israeli civil intelligence agency, which had previous dealings of long standing with the Phalangists. Saguy testified that he was not informed beforehand that the Phalangists would be allowed to enter the camps. When he learned what had happened, he did nothing. As he told the commission, "So what could I say? 'Why did you send [them] in without asking me?' Or should I act insulted? No, I simply stepped aside in this matter...
...loonies, the climax came with a minute left and Cornell's win assured. A particularly crazed student he must have been known to the crowd beforehand--stood to lead a well coordinated and amazingly loud chant of "Which team is the winning team? Which team is the losing team...