Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arabs got the message, and did not like it. Said a high-ranking Egyptian official after the Knesset vote: "The Israelis have thrown down the gauntlet to President Carter. The Israelis don't believe, he means to change American policy. Carter will have to make it crystal-clear how America really feels about war and peace, Arabs and Jews. Begin is talking tough. We think Carter will answer in kind...
Critics of Carter's human rights stance glibly trace his "basic principles and values" back to a Southern Baptist Sunday school outlook. Actually, such moral basics are common to all men of all times; they are found not only in the Bible but in Hindu, Egyptian, Chinese, Norse, Babylonian and Greek texts...
Vance was advised first by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and then by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal that Arafat, who had been shuttling between Arab states almost as rapidly as Vance himself, was "tinkering" with changes in the longstanding P.L.O. stand against Israel. Vance flashed the news to Plains in a midnight cable, and Carter again urged Palestinians to agree to Resolution 242, in order to make possible "discussions" with the U.S. and participate in a Geneva Conference...
...Marcovicci-best known as Woody Allen's girl friend in The Front-admires the strong-willed wife of King Akhenaten. "I like to play women who want something for themselves and will fight for it," says Andrea. To pre pare for her role, she spent hours in the Egyptian collection at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art and is now reading Herodotus and other historians. Says Andrea: "The well-to-do women had at least three handmaidens and went through elaborate preparations early in the day. They also shaved their heads, which I have no intention of doing...
...Yasser Arafat preceded (and in some places also followed) the U.S. diplomat at every stop except Jordan. Arriving in Alexandria after Vance had departed, Arafat convinced Sadat to modify the "working group" idea by including-as a smiling Arafat described it-"a new paragraph on the Palestinians." Added an Egyptian official: "It leaves no doubt that the Palestinian rights will be respected...