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Therg were several nagging omens as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flew from Washington last week for a seven-day journey of mediation through the Middle East, his sixth such trek in the past two years. Kissinger reached Cairo on the first leg of his flight to seven capitals (the others: Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem, Riyadh, Algiers and finally Rabat) during the Moslem penitential month of Ramadan. The Secretary of State was unable to meet with fasting President Anwar Sadat until after sundown; Kissinger thus had to while away several hours sightseeing. As he flew out of Cairo, a Secret Service...
...side has turned bluntly threatening. In an interview for French television, Sadat warned that "either Israel comes to reason in the Geneva talks or we shall be returning to war again." Lieut. General Mohamed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, Sadat's chief of staff, told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn in Cairo last week that Egypt's armed forces are in better shape now than before the October...
Kissinger smiled broadly and voiced optimism as he left Cairo, but U.S. officials hedged on what progress was being made. During his visit to Egypt last summer, President Nixon magnanimously announced that the U.S. would provide nuclear reactors to both sides as a peace offering, along with a special grant of $250 million to Egypt to help its sagging economy. So far both gifts have been snagged: the reactors cannot be provided until a complicated question of inspection is resolved, while foreign aid allotment has been stalled by a foot-dragging pro-Israel Senate. "If Kis singer cannot deliver even...
...does Kissinger really have a Spenglerian view of Western civilization and its future? Last week, in a conversation with TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, Kissinger seemed to be more hopeful than previous reports had suggested. Sitting in an alcove of Cairo's marble-and-alabaster Tahra Palace during his two-day visit with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the Secretary of State conceded that for a historian, the signs might point in the direction of a decline of the West's political systems. But as a statesman, Kissinger emphasized: "I do not accept the decline of the West...
Scarcely five months ago, following Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's triumphant shuttle spectacular between Israel, Egypt and Syria, chances for a Middle East peace looked unbelievably bright. This week, as Kissinger undertakes another flying tour to Cairo, Damascus, Amman and Jerusalem, hopes for a settlement have been dangerously tarnished. One reason is that no one seems to know how to solve the problem of the displaced Palestinians-including the Palestinians themselves...