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...wake of the Arab summit at Rabat, events had moved far enough and fast enough that Kissinger was forced to revise the flight schedule. As his blue-and-white Air Force 707 lifted off from Rome for Cairo last week, newsmen traveling with Kissinger were told by State Department officials that his calls at the Egyptian capital, and at Riyadh, Amman, Damascus and Jerusalem, were "working visits" rather than "official visits"-the description of previous stops on his aerial caravan...
...plan that Kissinger had discussed with Sadat on his last visit to Cairo in October called for step-by-step phased negotiations between Israel and Egypt followed by talks between Jordan and Israel on the future of the West Bank?a program that now seems unlikely if not impossible. Kissinger will fly back to the area next week for a firsthand check on what the Arab decision does to his policy of "gradualism" in negotiations...
...distant relative of the Grand Mufti, the Moslem spiritual leader who led the first revolt against the British mandate. As a youth, Arafat was involved in the Arab-Israeli fighting of 1947-48 and became a refugee when his family fled to Gaza. While studying at the University of Cairo, Arafat became president of the local Palestinian Students Federation, and served in the Egyptian army during the 1956 war. Later he moved to Kuwait, where he worked in the Ministry of Public Works and operated a profitable contracting company on the side. A co-founder of Al Fatah, he quit...
...aides sometimes do not know whether he is in Beirut?or in Damascus, Algiers or Cairo, seeking funds and support. He is particularly adept at the politics of consensus. Says a P.L.O. official: "He is one of the few people I can think of who can fly directly from Riyadh to Moscow and get along well in both places...
...Israel now lives in a state of almost complete siege, surrounded by Arab military and economic power and world support for Arab rights." That kind of remark, which appeared in an editorial in Cairo's daily al Akhbar, could easily have been dismissed as idle rhetoric had it preceded an Arab summit meeting in the past. But last week as 19 Arab leaders arrived in Rabat, Morocco, for a three-day conference, the mood was genuinely one of new-found strength and confidence...