Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have an official dictate a statement announcing that the talks had adjourned for the day. That afternoon, House did some sightseeing and retired to her hotel to get ready to go out to dinner. The phone rang. Her predecessor on the diplomatic beat, at that time foreign editor in Cairo, wanted to know why Sadat had returned home so early when he was still supposed to be in Jerusalem. "The news came as a total surprise to me. But I got out of the tub in a hurry and onto the phone only to find out how big a story...
...early 1978, Vance left on a Middle East mission to Cairo and Jerusalem with the usual gaggle of reporters in tow. House second-guessed the Secretary of State's purpose and, on a hunch, called Washington. Speaking to a contact on then-President Jimmy Carter's National Security Council, House asked him if Vance was travelling to the Middle East to personally invite Begin and Sadat to a summit in the United States. She recalls his shocked response, saying. "I knew my hunch was correct when he refused to either confirm or deny it." Though she had no confirmed sources...
...hostile action against Israel and was neither "responsible nor accountable" for the longtime presence of the Palestine Liberation Organization within its borders. David Kimche, director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry and head of his country's delegation, replied that Lebanon's signing of the 1969 Cairo Agreement, which allowed the P.L.O. to establish its rule in Southern Lebanon and the refugee camps, had been a violation of the 1949 armistice between the two countries. Kimche also reminded the Lebanese that their government had supported Egypt, Syria and Jordan during...
Suffering from a mild spot of dysentery and a major dose of skepticism, New Delhi Bureau Chief Dean Brelis went to a fetid garbage collectors' dumping ground near Cairo to meet a saintly missionary, Sister Emmanuelle. "A reporter from TIME?" she asked. "What kind of joke is this?" Then she spotted the sloppily bandaged cut hand of Brelis' driver...
...Cairo when Sister Emmanuelle, 74, awakens in her hut with its dirt floor and gaping hole in the roof. After washing in a bucket, she sets out on a two-mile walk to attend Mass at the nearest church. She is clad in a white smock and a necklace