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...were elected. Only hours later, however, the President announced his peace mission to Egypt and Israel, and off went Ogden to the Middle East once again. Ogden welcomed the Carter journey as easier to cover than the Camp David summit meeting last September. "At least now," he reported from Cairo, "the principals and their aides are not locked up in seclusion behind electrified barbed wire in the Catoctin Mountains...
Correspondents usually stationed in the Middle East also found their travel plans disrupted. Cairo Bureau Chief Dean
...Halevy, an eleven-year veteran of TIME'S Jerusalem bureau, was also in Washington, and he too flew back to his old beat. Since the visit of President Sadat to Jerusalem 16 months ago, the native Israeli has reported on negotiations not only in his country, but in Cairo and Ismailia as well...
...minister of oil and industry, he played a major role in the industrialization of Egypt during the 1950s and '60s, then broke with Nasser's leftist supporters and resigned from the government in 1966 to become a professor at the University of Cairo. An admirer of Western culture (his collection of classical records is reputed to be the finest in Cairo), Khalil also conceived the idea of one of the most effective weapons against the West: the Arab oil boycott of 1973 was his inspiration, which he sold first to the Saudis and then to the other Arab...
Though it was scarcely any comfort for the Shah, a number of observers in Middle Eastern capitals now were beginning to wonder about the life expectancy of the Bazargan government. In Cairo, Egyptian officials were speculating that the Tehran regime might hang on for six months, but then would be toppled by leftists. Only time and events will tell whether Iranians can be persuaded that their new rulers have indeed "saved Iran...