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...withdrawal of Israeli troops promises to help repair Israel's relations with Egypt, which has long called for an Israeli pullout. Earlier this month Israelis were allowed to participate in the Cairo Book Fair for the first time in two years. Last month the two countries resumed negotiations over disputed border areas after nearly two years of silence. But there was a failure to resolve the major issue of Taba, a 250-acre wedge of palmy beachfront on the eastern edge of the Sinai, which is claimed by both countries. Peres and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sounded apprehensive last week...
...ordered me to follow events in the area. Analysts in the Middle East Department were worried. "Things are bad," one of them told me early in 1971, referring to the fact that the Egyptians were stalling Moscow on concluding a long-sought treaty of friendship designed to bind Cairo firmly into an alliance. A friend told me, "Opinions are beginning to solidify in the leadership that we have to be rid of (Egyptian President Anwar) Sadat. Sadat is a scoundrel. The only problem is that we don't have a really strong figure to take over from him. But there...
...Vatican is one of the busiest and most productive assignments available to a correspondent," says TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn. He should know: for all but five of the past 22 years he has been on that beat (from 1974 to 1979, Wynn was based in Cairo). He has contributed to eleven cover stories on the Roman Catholic Church and on four Popes, beginning with John XXIII. "But covering Pope John Paul II has been especially gratifying," says Wynn. "He has a real knack for getting into the news. Altogether, TIME has done eight cover stories on him since...
...result was a corporation that in 1979 had 370,000 employees in more than 100 countries. Among its multitude of ventures, ITT is currently manufacturing radar in Los Angeles, television sets in West Germany, shock absorbers in The Netherlands and radios in Zimbabwe, and is helping Egypt to rebuild Cairo's water-treatment system. ITT last year dropped its original name, International Telephone & Telegraph, because it gives no hint of the company's scope...
...month before he was assassinated, in 1981, President Anwar Sadat ordered the detention of Shenouda, eight bishops and 22 parish priests, accusing them of fomenting unrest. Since then, Shenouda has been forced to live at the 4th century Monastery of St. Bishoi, in the desert northwest of Cairo. In 1983 the government finally specified the charges against Shenouda. Among them: emphasizing a Coptic identity, urging churches to teach the old Coptic language, "encouraging hostility toward the regime" by asserting Copts' political grievances, and resisting legislation aimed at making Egypt more Islamic. Since then, however, Muslim and Christian enmity in Egypt...