Word: cairo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Europe: Christopher Redman London: Christopher Ogden, Anne Constable Paris: Jordan Bonfante, Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez
Flying back to Pretoria from talks in Cairo, South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha was in high good humor. Jauntily donning a red fez, Botha told reporters that with the aid of Chester Crocker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, negotiators from South Africa, Angola and Cuba had made progress on future discussions concerning the withdrawal of Cuban and South African troops from Angola. But the euphoria dissolved the following day, when new fighting broke out. Pretoria said that twelve of its soldiers and 300 Angolans and Cubans were killed when a government force attacked a South...
...back in Arab estimation. Earlier in the week, the Palestinian cause (though not the P.L.O.) received a boost from Secretary of State George Shultz during a five-day tour to promote a U.S.-sponsored regional peace plan. "The fate of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism are interdependent," he said in Cairo. A day later, Shultz berated Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir for Israel's failure to consider Palestinian rights. "The continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and the frustration of Palestinian rights is a dead-end street," he argued...
Europe: Christopher Redman London: Christopher Ogden Paris: Jordan Bonfante, Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez
Shultz flew to Damascus from Cairo, where he had spent the night after flying from Jerusalem where he had talks with Shamir...