Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever else Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's peace initiative may have accomplished, it has blown not just a fresh breeze but a whirlwind through the diplomacy of the Middle East. It was scarcely a month ago that Sadat made his historic trip to Jerusalem. Last Wednesday, exactly 26 days later, Egyptian and Israeli delegates were sitting down together in a Cairo conference room, in the very shadow of the pyramids, to lay the groundwork for full-scale peace talks. At the very moment that the session was being called to order, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was headed for Washington...
There was one place where the strength of that momentum was beyond dispute: Cairo. There, Israeli and Egyptian delegates met at the historic Mena House hotel, shook hands, laughed and sat down to talk at a round table in the ornate Rubaiyat room. As is the case with so many events in the Middle East today, the participants hardly seemed able to believe where they were or what they were doing. Premier Begin joined in the euphoric mood. Before leaving for Washington, he had greeted an Israeli negotiator by telephone: "Shalom, shalom, how is the weather in Cairo? Sunny...
Describing Egypt and Israel as "two ancient lands, two very old peoples, two civilizations, two historic neighbors." Chief Israeli Delegate Eliahu Ben-Elissar told his Egyptian hosts: "We come to renew an agelong relationship...
Israelis back home shared in the excitement. During an hour-long broadcast by Israel's Armed Forces Radio, listeners had the chance to phone in questions for the network's correspondents in Cairo. One Israeli woman wanted a description of Egyptian fashions. A listener from Haifa asked about poverty in Egypt and was told by his countryman on the scene: "There are some depressing sights here, but there have been a lot of improvements as well...
...promised to be a big story, and David Holden, 53, the London Sunday Times's distinguished chief foreign correspondent, interrupted a leave of absence to be on the scene. With the Egyptian-Israeli peace talks still eight days off, he flew into Cairo from Jordan on the night of Dec. 6. He had his passport stamped, cashed $200 in traveler's checks and strode out of the airport. About eight hours later Holden's body was found beside a road near the airport, his pockets empty, the labels ripped off his tailor-made suit and a single...