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...Cairo, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat sacked his Premier and shuffled his Cabinet to calm domestic protests that threaten his position...
...Mehdi said the Hoffmann plan was "a step forward in the area," and a Cairo English language newspaper reprinted part of the Foreign Affairs article, "without distortion" according to Hoffmann. In the United States, the plan has been heralded and reprinted on The New York Times oped page, and praised in Time magazine. Indeed the influence of such a plan on policy makers in Washington cannot be overestimated. Which perhaps explains why the official Israeli response, as articulated by the embassy in Washington is that the plan is "totally unworkable and fails to take into account the causes of previous...
...minute interview with TIME's Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn last week, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat indicated his willingness -under certain conditions-to renew the mandate of the United Nations peace-keeping force for longer than three months and to consider allowing nonstrategic Israeli cargoes to transit the reopened Suez Canal. Excerpts...
...Middle East. If I look backward, I see that the support of the various administrations has not harmed the U.S. in this region. I'd say the opposite. Despite the U.S. supply of arms to Israel during the Yom Kippur War, the gates of Cairo and Damascus later were opened to an American President. The Arabs realize that the U.S. is a factor in any effort to bring about a real political settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict...
...time when his prestige throughout the Arab world was at a peak. In the past, many Arab radicals had savagely attacked him as a reactionary, tyrannical ruler of a feudal desert kingdom. But all that changed after Faisal dramatically imposed the oil embargo in October 1973. The Cairo daily al Gumhouriya, once a vehicle for anti-Faisal propaganda campaigns, observed last week: "The Arab nation can never forget his heroic stand during the October war, or that he launched the oil battle in support of the fighters in Sinai and the Golan, or the moral and material aid that...