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...Cairo insisted that Egypt was still cholera free, and took the precaution of checking travelers from affected countries. Hundreds who did not have up-to-date vaccination certificates were quarantined; cholera can incubate in the body for as long as five days before symptoms appear. Incoming planes were fumigated as soon as they landed. The health ministry launched a massive campaign to inoculate 13 million Egyptians. Authorities burned every garbage heap they could find in Cairo and Alexandria...
...Indian subcontinent, where cholera is endemic. (Israeli authorities have arranged with Jordan to cooperate in the immunization of 5,000 Muslims living in Israel or occupied territories who will be making the pilgrimage.) Arab governments are so concerned that this week they will hold a 20-nation meeting in Cairo to decide on the best protective measures. The comma-shaped bacterium (Vibrio cholerae) responsible for cholera finds its natural breeding ground in the human bowel, and is excreted in the feces. The disease can be contracted only by drinking-or bathing and washing in-water containing human fecal matter, from...
...rare show of unanimity, 21 Foreign Ministers of the Arab League last week adopted in Cairo what one Western diplomat called "the last hurrah for the moderates." He meant an eight-point working paper that Arab delegates will discuss at the U.N. as the basis for further resolutions. The paper states that a "just and durable peace in the Middle East" depends on the fulfillment of two basic principles: 1) Israel must withdraw from Arab territories occupied during the 1967 war, including East Jerusalem, and 2) the Palestinians have a right to return to their place of origin, to self...
Amid dimming hopes that Geneva peace talks can resume this year, the Israelis made it official last week that they would not negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organization under any circumstances. A few days later, as representatives of the 21 member nations of the Arab League gathered in Cairo, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, insisted that his country will back every effort to set up a Palestinian state on the West Bank and in Gaza. The Arab states, he said, will push for a United Nations resolution-which almost certainly will pass-condemning Israel...
Meanwhile, the Arab League gathered in Cairo over the weekend for its first high-level meeting in six months. Chief topic on the agenda: the Palestinians. Prince Saud, who was the chairman of the meeting, declared that the Arabs would adopt "a plan of action" against the Israelis' move to create new settlements on the occupied West Bank and Gaza which he characterized as "criminal measures and a flagrant challenge endangering peace in the region." The meeting was expected to communicate to Carter the Arab message-no Palestinians, no settlement...