Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the trip was suddenly scheduled. "I am firmly against it," Fahmy told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn in Cairo. Sadat immediately offered Fahmy's job to Egypt's second-ranking diplomat, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohamed Riad. But he resigned also, in what began to resemble an Egyptian Saturday Night Massacre. Sadat then named Butros Ghali, a member of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority and an economist with little foreign affairs experience, as Acting Foreign Minister. Presumably Sadat will have to name an experienced diplomat to the post. Two plausible candidates: Ambassador to Washington Ashraf Ghorbal and Esmat...
...visit to Bucharest three weeks ago. Ceau?escu, who only a few days before had received Premier Begin, said he thought it was a sound idea. Sadat did not tell Carter of his idea?then or ever. He wanted the world to know that his mission was an Egyptian initiative, and not a ploy inspired by Washington. But he felt he had to tell the Saudis. Foreign Minister Fahmy, though aware of Sadat's dream, did not take the proposal seriously. Top Egyptian military commanders were also informed; they are as weary as Sadat is of another extended...
Vance's gloomy estimate discouraged and disillusioned Sadat. Despite lingering Israeli suspicions of his sincerity, the Egyptian President has been by far the most accommodating Arab leader in seeking new ways to achieve peace. Another extended period of waiting for that goal was something that Egypt?and Sadat?could not endure. His country was an economic cripple, with debts of $13 billon. It is now dependent on subsidies amounting to $5.4 billion from the U.S., Saudi Arabia and the other Arab oil states merely to keep going. Egypt's parlous economic situation is certainly a political hazard for Sadat. Seventy...
When Sadat told the Egyptian assembly of his willingness to go to Jerusalem, he was suspected of having reverted to his rhetorical
...excesses of the past. In 1972, for example, he explained how an Egyptian attack on Israeli armored forces in Sinai had been aborted because of sudden "fog" over the Suez Canal. In fact, it had been a clear day, on which both sides could see forever...