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...acting-big. With Ali demanding prize money beyond the means of individuals or even corporations, King has made his deals with governments. Shrewd enough to realize that championship bouts featuring Ali are the kind of promotion that developing nations like to stage, King has courted heads of state in Cairo, Tehran, Lusaka (Zambia), Manila and Kuala Lumpur. "The jet lag is so bad," he says, "I eat breakfast 24 hours...
...call it the shuttle," an Israeli diplomat jokingly implored TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott as Rabin disembarked at Andrews. Despite the effort at humor, the Israelis were in no mood to link Rabin's trip to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's long-playing diplomatic shuttle between Cairo and Jerusalem, which ended in a stalemate three months...
...disengagement in Sinai. Egypt would like any extensions of the interim agreement on the Sinai to be for an indefinite period of time. Israel insists on signing such an agreement for a specific period of at least three to five years. In return, Jerusalem would be willing to accept Cairo's pledge not to use force during the life of the agreement, rather than the formal declaration of nonbelligerency that Israel demanded during the unsuccessful shuttle...
...Sinai. As it turned out, the Israelis had earlier reduced their forces to about 3,500; in some sectors, military units had never been brought up to the strength allowed under the 1974 disengagement agreement. Washington was aware of this fact from satellite reconnaissance, but according to Cairo, did not bother to tell Egypt. Some critics accused Israel of fakery by timing the announcement of something that had already been done to coincide with the Salzburg meeting. In fact, this was not really an embarrassment to Jerusalem; Rabin, in announcing the thin-out, made a significant public commitment to keep...
Among the newsmen who covered the reopening of the Suez Canal last week were TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager, who observed the shoreside ceremonies, and Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who, as pool reporter for the English-speaking press, was aboard the October Six with Sadat. Their accounts of the celebration...