Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...along the steep, twisting Damascus Highway. "As Bureau Driver Salim Karami and I went along the narrow road," he recalled, "we were constantly forced to the side to make way for the Syrian 1st Armored Division to pass through to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley." Two days later, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt, with the Beirut airport still shut down, hired a taxi for the three-hour drive from Damascus, dodging Syrian tanks on the ground and hearing Israeli jets overhead. Reaching the Lebanese capital, he found a city filled with rumors, refugees and fear...
...post at Taba, five miles south of the Israeli town of Eilat, an Egyptian officer politely but firmly explained to the Israeli drivers of 15 vehicles that they could not yet be allowed to go any further. A rubber stamp needed for validating travel documents had not arrived from Cairo, he explained. At the scruffy northern Sinai town of Rafah, which is now divided by the Israeli-Egyptian border fence, matters were also confused. The system that will permit Arab residents to move freely throughout the city was not yet in effect, so the border was temporarily closed...
When Franzheim criticized the EAO for charging ahead and ignoring Gauri, the EAO barred her from the site and refused access to Lehner for a week. Says Kamel El Mallakh, cultural editor of Cairo's al Ahram newspaper: "We are experts, and the Sphinx is Egyptian. It is our glory, our history...
...more than a week, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Walter Stoessel had been shuttling back and forth between Jerusalem and Cairo, anxious to see that no last-minute hitches would prevent the Sinai withdrawal from taking place on schedule. The event was a momentous one, poignant for the Egyptians, frightening for the Israelis. The Sinai, captured from Egypt in the Six-Day War, had given the Israelis a buffer against a traditional enemy and had provided a new frontier for adventurous young settlers. Under the terms of Camp David, the Israelis had agreed to surrender the Sinai in three stages...
Though he coolly carried out the Sinai settlement. Sadat's successor Hosni Mubarak plans to end the rift between Egypt and other Arab states created in the process; Israel can expect little flexibility from Cairo on the Palestinian issue...