Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while the Arabs were ecstatic over Carter. An Egyptian official called him "more Arab than the Ar abs," while Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat last month praised the President's position on the Palestinians as "a positive step...
...infiltrations and espionage attempts had forced Cairo to teach Libya's erratic strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, a lesson in good manners. Rather like a stern uncle rebuking a wayward nephew, President Anwar Sadat described Gaddafi as "a second Napoleon" and "just a child"-inspiring Tripoli spokesmen to dismiss the Egyptian President as "a Zionist tool...
Privately, Egyptian spokesmen conceded that there was a serious political purpose behind the armored assaults along the border and the series of preemptive bombing strikes at airbases and radar installations. The Egyptians hit Libyan airfields at Al Adem, near Tobruk, Al Kufra and Umm Alayan, as well as a training camp for African "volunteers" near Al Jaghbub, which was attacked by helicopter-borne commandos. According to Egyptian intelligence, reports TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, Gaddafi-in cooperation with Ethiopia and with Soviet support -planned to launch attacks on moderate governments all across northeast Africa...
...military clashes were a culmination of the long-running feud between the erratic Gaddafi and Sadat. After Gaddafi struck an arms deal with the Soviets in 1975, Sadat concluded that Gaddafi was trying to overthrow him by supporting an Egyptian underground with Libyan money and Russian arms. In early July, when an extremist Muslim sect called the Society for Repentance and Retreat murdered a former Egyptian Cabinet minister and planted bombs in Cairo, the Egyptian government blamed it on Gaddafi. At least four people have been executed in Egypt as Libyan "saboteurs." Sadat is incensed by Libyan propaganda that mocks...
...Jerusalem. Vance's aides are worried about what kind of reception he will get in the Arab world. Said one U.S. official: "The problem with all this is how the Arabs will feel about it. Frankly, I think they will have a tough time accepting it." Although Egyptian sources expressed satisfaction that both the U.S. and Israel favor a Geneva Conference in October, a P.L.O. spokesman in Beirut rather ominously warned that Begin's plan was a program for war, not peace...