Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both the Camp David accords and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty when they came before the Knesset for approval. One opposition spokesman charged in parliament that it was "the height of absurdity" to name a foreign policy spokesman opposed to his government's major diplomatic achievement. Officials in Cairo and Washington professed not to be worried, however, arguing that the only one who sets foreign policy in Jerusalem is Premier Menachem Begin...
...future, according to State Department Security Planner Lambert Heyniger, will be to design "smaller, less conspicuous buildings, possibly raised off the ground to make them that much more difficult for attackers to enter." Many new embassies have already traded aesthetics for security considerations. The new Swedish embassy in Cairo is a forbidding concrete structure with a single street entrance, narrow slits for windows, and a protected inner courtyard backing on the Nile?for quick escape by boat if necessary. More than anything, it is said to resemble Hitler's bunker. Finally, another comparatively hardhearted approach gaining adherents even...
MADRID, Sept. 15, 1975 Four armed Palestinian terrorists break into Egyptian embassy, take three hostages and threaten to blow up the building unless Cairo renounces the Sinai pact with Israel. Flown to Algiers with five hostages, terrorists surrender to the P.L.O. All the hostages are freed...
...expressions of official good will scarcely hid the mutual suspicions that still threaten to disturb the new official peace between Egypt and Israel. Even last week there were ruffled feelings over Washington's announcement that it would furnish Cairo with an impressive array of sophisticated weapons, including 40 F-16 fighter jets and 250 M-60 tanks. The U.S. also agreed in principle to sell Egypt an unspecified number of F-15s, the most advanced fighters in the West's arsenal...
...equal footing" with Israel as faithful allies of the U.S. in the Middle East. In addition to asking Congress to approve this military aid package, involving $4 billion in credits over the next five years, the Carter Administration plans to propose an extra $200 million in aid to help Cairo finance the weaponry...