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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, in an interview last week with ABC Debutante Barbara Walters, declared that "Ford is my dearest friend ... If he is reelected, it will be a very happy occasion for me." The Egyptian leader was obviously thinking of the Ford-Kissinger policies that have enabled Cairo to recover much of the Sinai Desert and its valuable oilfields from Israel...
...breakaway regime, friends suggest, reflects his personality as much as his politics. As a pilot flying Hawker Hurricanes in North Africa for the Royal Air Force during World War II, Smith barely survived a spectacular crackup on a takeoff. But after five months of plastic surgery in Cairo, during which his face had to be almost totally rebuilt, he was happily back flying fighter missions. Later he was shot down while strafing German positions in Italy, and found himself stranded far behind enemy lines. Eagerly playing guerrilla, Smith fought with a band of Italian partisans for five months before beginning...
Military Conference. The Syrians, in effect, were demanding an enforcement of the so-called Cairo agreement, a 1969 deal that was supposed to control the movement of Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon. The P.L.O. has ignored the agreement from the beginning by carrying out operations against Israel from Lebanon as it saw fit. To obey the Cairo accord now, Arafat realized, would be to destroy the last unrestricted political base left to the Palestinians in the Middle East. The P.L.O. chief refused to withdraw from the mountains and sent urgent pleas for support to other Arab countries, including Kuwait and Saudi...
...million in 1976, a thousand Koreans work as long-haul truck drivers. The 1,200 Koreans building a 100-mile stretch of highway in Saudi Arabia work ten hours a day, 28 days a month for $1,100 (five times their pay back home) and fly to Cairo every two months for three riotous days of rest and relaxation...
...Middle Eastern investors-the Dorchester for a cool $15.9 million. For those who are bothered by a touch of London tummy, help awaits at expensive Wellington Hospital in St. John's Wood, where the amenities include Arab interpreters and closed-circuit TV featuring Arab-language movies made in Cairo...