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...some 30 million years ago in what was then a lushly forested region in Egypt, has long been suspected of occupying a key position in the genealogy of higher primates, including man. Three years ago, Simons and his colleagues resumed their digging about 60 km (40 miles) southwest of Cairo, where he had found a single fossilized Aegyptopithecus skull in 1966. Last week they reported striking new evidence that the scrawny creature is the oldest common ancestor of apes...
Egypt, then, has had its first victory, but for the time being things have not yet moved in the other direction, that is, towards open support for Cairo and its policy...
...envoy three months ago, U.S. Ambassador Sol Linowitz last week managed at least a minor breakthrough in the stalled talks between Egypt and Israel on autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza. With only four months left before expiration of the May deadline for a Palestinian autonomy plan, which Cairo and Jerusalem accepted in principle at Camp David, the Carter Administration has been anxious to speed up the pace of the negotiations. Reason: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates regard the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as a more troublesome source of Middle East instability...
Small wonder that the Egyptians immediately rejected the Israeli plan as unacceptable. Instead, Cairo proposed a Palestinian council of 80 to 100 members with full legislative, executive and judicial authority over the territories. Israel's chief negotiator, hard-line Interior Minister Yosef Burg, complained that this amounted to a "Palestinian parliament." He told TIME: "The Egyptians look upon autonomy as merely a corridor leading to Palestinian statehood. We are very allergic to anything that smacks of statehood...
...task of administering the West Bank's self-government, as called for by the Camp David accords. Hussein is unquestionably uneasy about Sadat's suggestion that one way to break the deadlock would be to start by establishing self-rule in Gaza under Egyptian administration. To offset Cairo's influence in Gaza, Hussein has stepped up his country's activities in the West Bank. Among other things, the Jordanians have conducted a census in the territory, announced plans to open passport offices there for the first time in twelve years, and dispensed aid to Arab villages...