Word: cairo
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...have the Nile searched for explosives beforehand; neither do they lunch with Jehan Sadat, widow of Anwar, nor get together with President Hosni Mubarak. Visiting Egypt on a swing through the Middle East, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were reminded often of the 1978 Camp David accords. Strolling through a Cairo bazaar, he was greeted with shouts of "Welcome, Mr. Peace Man!" Mused Carter: "I could do very well in an election in Egypt." But not necessarily everywhere else: as the Carters toured Jerusalem later in the week, more than 100 Arabs shouted slogans and threw rocks to protest the Camp...
...what he does is always tainted by easy accommodation and the habit of incessant compromise. He moves from trading slaves out of Charleston, S.C., and shipping pagan idols to China to reigning as a prophet in the Moroccan desert, finally ending up crowned "the Emperor of Self in a Cairo mad house, with a wreath of straw...
Brandenburg called Rubbia "exciting and audacious," adding that his willingness to follow-up on his own ideas led him to the W particle. "He's the fastest moving man around," Brandenburg said. "When Cairo is around there's never a dull moment...
...differences with Israel, particularly since the Israeli invasion of Lebanon last summer, he remains committed to the Camp David peace treaty with Israel and the U.S. Before leaving for the U.S. for discussions with President Reagan this week, a clearly worried Mubarak talked for 80 minutes with TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt about the problems of Egypt and the Middle East. Mubarak expressed confidence that life would gradually improve for his country's 45 million people, but, he added with a sigh, "my job is hard." Excerpts from the interview...
...early 1978, Vance left on a Middle East mission to Cairo and Jerusalem with the usual gaggle of reporters in tow. House second-guessed the Secretary of State's purpose and, on a hunch, called Washington. Speaking to a contact on then-President Jimmy Carter's National Security Council, House asked him if Vance was travelling to the Middle East to personally invite Begin and Sadat to a summit in the United States. She recalls his shocked response, saying. "I knew my hunch was correct when he refused to either confirm or deny it." Though she had no confirmed sources...