Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their trials proceeded in Spain's military courts, the case of the terrorists began to attract international attention. Plastique explosives blasted Iberia offices in Rome and Paris. A bomb threat at the Louvre, the first in the museum's history, sent police hunting through hundreds of Egyptian sarcophagi and Oriental vases. Early last week a delegation of French artists and intellectuals-among them Actor Yves Montand and Leftist Author Régis Debray-flew to Madrid to protest the sentences. They were quickly expelled. Official notes of protest were issued by the European Economic Community and United Nations...
Moscow holds Kissinger and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat responsible for the humiliation the Soviets suffered in the Middle East. This was fully reflected in Gromyko's mood, which one U.S. official described as "disappointed and unhappy." The Russians are not in a very strong bargaining position in the Arab world at the moment. Not only have they lost their influence in Egypt, but they also do not have much clout in Syria, even though some 3,000 Soviet technicians remain there. Ironically, the Soviets seem to be turning to the U.S. for help in getting back on the Middle...
...Abdel Khader Husseini Group, named after a Palestine liberation fighter. The group is thought to be composed of militants from the "rejection front," which is opposed to a negotiated settlement with Israel. They telephoned their demands to a Spanish news agency. Describing the Sinai accord as "treason against the Egyptian people," they said they would kill their hostages if Sadat did not repudiate the Sinai agreement and abandon implementation talks on the accord that are underway in Geneva. The Iraqi and Algerian ambassadors, later joined by those from Jordan and Kuwait, rushed to help their captive colleague. They communicated with...
...P.L.O. dissociated itself from the operation, and Sadat vowed he would not be intimidated or "terrorized" by this or any other anti-Egyptian demonstration to change his policy. The incident, however, underlined the differences within the P.L.O., contrasting Arafat's relatively moderate point of view with the harder revolutionary line of George Habash and other adherents of the "rejection front," which includes not only the more militant fedayeen groups but Libya and Iraq as well...
General Dynamics attracted the real pros: Senators Strom Thurmond and Howard Cannon and Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres, who may have about $2 billion in aid to spend on weapons if Congress approves the Israeli-Egyptian accord. They climbed into a mock-up cockpit of the F-16 fighter and were briefed on a computerized projection device...