Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Higginson, the lightweight coach who accompanied this year's team, said yesterday, "The team went to see the sights, strictly as a tour, not for the challenge of racing against the Egyptian crews...
...Cairo, after a four-day summit, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad formally ended their year-long feud by announcing not only their reconciliation but also the creation of machinery for a closer alliance of their two states. No one seriously expects a return to the kind of Syrian-Egyptian union that blossomed and then failed in Gamal Abdel Nasser's day. Instead, observers interpreted the two leaders' reference to "unionist relations" to mean that they were coordinating their diplomatic drive to force Israel to the Geneva conference table early in the coming year...
...resigning as Israel's Premier, after first having expelled the three members of the National Religious Party from his insecure coalition Cabinet. Rabin presumably will stay on as Premier until the next elections, which will take place some time in the spring, instead of November as scheduled. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy angrily accused Rabin of "Israeli acrobatics"-but the Arabs know full well that there can be no serious negotiations until Israel's political crisis is untangled...
...Sadat can make peace with TIME if he wants to," said Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, glancing at a copy of the magazine's interview with the Egyptian President (TIME, Nov. 29). "But if he wants peace in the Middle East, he must do it with us." In a conversation last week with Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff and Correspondent David Halevy, Rabin said that he is ready to negotiate "any time, any place, with any Arab leader." He also explained the reasons for Israel's strong warnings to Syria last week and reaffirmed its opposition to Palestinian representation...
...Egyptian President Anwar Sadat calls him "the lunatic of Libya." The CIA, TIME has learned, commissioned a secret psychological profile, which suggested that he was sound of mind. Nonetheless, Libya's mercurial strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 34, has given leaders everywhere plenty of reason to worry since he took power in a 1969 military coup. With the country's approximately $10 billion in annual revenues, mostly from oil, the ascetic, fanatically religious Gaddafi has become, among other things, one of the world's foremost backers of terrorism and insurrection. Pursuing a dream of a Libyan-led Islamic...