Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Puffing contentedly on his pipe, President Anwar Sadat gazed out the window of Egyptian 01 at one of the Israeli Kfir fighters that escorted him part of the way from Tel Aviv to Cairo. "Just look at what has changed in only 40 hours," he said. "Did you ever dream that Anwar Sadat would be received as a hero in Israel...
...only for the extraordinarily warm welcome he received on his historic "sacred mission," Sadat probably had a right to declare himself "100% satisfied" with his trip. Although he returned home without specific concessions-in fact, he did not expect any, at least not right away-the Egyptian President had suddenly transformed the nature and direction of Middle East diplomacy. Once more the road to Geneva was open, and the possibility of a Middle East settlement was something more than a distant dream...
Exploiting the breakthrough, Sadat last week invited "all the parties to the conflict-including Israel-to meet here in Cairo and prepare for a Geneva conference." He told the cheering Egyptian national People's Assembly that he was prepared to be host to such a meeting as early as this week. Sadat's announcement caught the eligible participants-Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the U.S. and the Soviet Union-by surprise. The Israelis indicated that they were willing to attend. Syria, seething over Sadat's overtures to Israel, rejected the invitation flatly. The U.S. was interested...
AFTER NEARLY thirty years of conflict, the recent breakthrough in relations between Israel and Egypt comes as a welcome surprise. Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat's historic trip to Israel was a symbolic gesture that may signal a break in the seemingly endless escalating cycles of hostility in the Middle East. Similarly, Sadat's request last week for a meeting in Cairo, as soon as possible, of all nations and Palestinian representatives involved in the complex Middle East situation to discuss the upcoming Geneva peace talks is heartening. Again, Sadat's move was a welcome one, although it still lies...
...race to bring Sadat and Begin together began as a three-way scramble among the U.S. commercial networks on Nov. 12, when Begin was quoted in U.S. newspapers as welcoming a visit from Sadat. CBS then asked its bureaus in Cairo, Tunis and Washington to approach Egyptian officials about arranging a satellite interview between Sadat and Cronkite, who had met each other on several previous occasions. The pair taped an exchange the following Monday, Nov. 14. "Under my suggestive questioning," Cronkite recalled, "Sadat said he could go [to Israel] within a week, as soon as he had an official invitation...