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...time to mention it. His hard line was clearly aimed toward P.L.O. supporters in the Arab world, where the speech was beamed by satellite. Not since the heyday of the late Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt had any speech been so eagerly awaited. On the streets of Beirut and Cairo, people gathered round anyone carrying a transistor radio to listen in. In the refugee camps of Beirut, Sidon and Tripoli, a holiday was declared; schools were closed, and employees of the U.N. refugee agency took...
...militant Jewish groups of the '30s and '40s, pressured the British to give up their mandate over Palestine through bombs and assassinations and tried to force the Arabs out through simple murder. Lord Moyne, the British administrator for the Middle East, was killed in 1944 in Cairo by the Stern Gang, which also assassinated Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, the U.N. mediator in Palestine, in 1948. The most infamous act of all was the murder by the Irgun and Stern Gang of 254 Arabs in the village of Deir Yassin in 1948. David Ben-Gurion's Haganah...
Arriving in Cairo, Kissinger admitted that the Rabat summit's endorsement of Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat had "complicated matters." As it happened, Arafat was also in the Egyptian capital, to discuss his forthcoming visit to the U.N. with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Kissinger refused to admit the possibility that he and the fedayeen leader might confer face to face. "We'd be crazy to switch our signals and push the Israelis into dealing with Arafat now," said a U.S. official...
...customary hospitality was ready when Kissinger's 707 landed in Cairo. President Sadat extended a graceful welcome to "my friend Dr. Kissinger." Ailing with influenza, Sadat had risen from a sickbed to greet the Secretary, and his words could scarcely be heard at a press conference following their discussions at Giza Residence...
...coordinator and credible witness in congressional hearings. When Simon became Treasury Secretary, he tailored a new job especially for Parsky. Among other things, Parsky is charged with developing policies to muffle the impact of high-priced oil imports on the U.S. balance of payments. Last week Parsky was in Cairo to discuss the possibility of U.S. economic aid to Egypt. There is some talk that Simon will soon leave the Cabinet. But for the moment, at least, Simon is the Administration's chief economic spokesman; and as his alter ego, Jerry Parsky is one of the Administration...