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...paralyzed as well. Moderate Arab nations friendly to the U.S. feel betrayed by the Administration's arms sales to Iran, a nation they fear because of its potential -- and unconcealed desire -- to stir up Islamic fundamentalist revolution outside its own borders. Says one veteran Arab diplomat in Cairo: "This Reaganite crisis will incapacitate the Administration. I am very much afraid we will have to wait two years (that is, until Reagan's successor is elected) before the U.S. can play a major role in the region...
Europe: Christopher Redman London: Christopher Ogden, Steven Holmes Paris: Jordan Bonfante, B. J. Phillips, Adam Zagorin Bonn: William McWhirter, John Kohan Rome: Sam Allis, Erik Amfitheatrof Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson Jerusalem: Roland Flamini Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: James Willwerth Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: William Stewart, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Peter Stoler Caribbean: Bernard Diederich Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Managua: Laura Lopez Rio de Janeiro: Gavin Scott...
...Islamic fundamentalists. Iran warned in July that military reprisals might be directed at Saudia Arabia, Kuwait and any other country that gave Iraq money to buy arms. Yamani's dismissal ended a remarkable career. The son of a religious judge in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, Yamani graduated from Cairo University and in 1956 received a degree from Harvard Law School. In 1958 he became a government legal adviser and protege of Crown Prince (later King) Faisal, who named the 32-year-old attorney oil minister in 1962. At that time OPEC, which had been founded only two years earlier...
...sometimes viewed as the West's inveterate enemy, Yamani has often taken conciliatory stances. "Since the last few years have seen a deterioration in Saudi revenues, he may have been used as a scapegoat," said Saad-Eddin Ibrahim, a professor of political sociology at the American University in Cairo...
Another U.S. air strike against Libya? Not quite. This time the bombs fell on a mock target near Wadi Natrun, some 50 miles northwest of Cairo, during U.S.-Egyptian military exercises last week. But the explosions that jarred the desert floor helped set off diplomatic reverberations in Libya and around the world...