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...warm Gallic welcome ended several years of frostiness between Paris and Cairo and demonstrated a recent shift in the French diplomatic posture with regard to the Middle East. Giscard has been burned by Libya, whose Colonel Muammar Gaddafi recently made a power grab in the former French African colony of Chad. As a result, he has been discreetly backing away from his formerly enthusiastic support for radical Arab regimes...
...Wherever Charles goes, he takes trouble with him," jokes Mattie Jones, wife of the only black American imprisoned for all 444 days of the crisis. The son of a public works employee, Jones joined the State Department as a communications officer in 1965. He was stationed in Cairo in 1967 when the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War erupted. In 1975 he was one of the last Americans to flee Saigon. And then, on Aug. 23, 1979, he arrived in Tehran...
...Jones is too busy savoring his reunion with his wife and four daughters in Detroit to decide whether to continue in the Foreign Service. But Wife Mattie believes that even after Cairo, Saigon and Tehran, Charles Jones will soon be packing his bags for another post overseas...
...coast-it took the artist two years to persuade authorities to let him undertake his "mad dream." Finally, he got the O.K. from Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. This month, after twelve weeks of creative effort with as many tons of paint, the "Sinai Peace Junction" opened to mixed reviews: Cairo's environmentalists disapprove, but "the local Bedouins," says Verame, "love it. Blue, they say, chases away the evil...