Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Israeli and Arab leaders were despondent about a prevailing sense that both sides might be drifting toward war. A week ago, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy had declared in Cairo that peace in the Middle East would require Israel "not to increase the number of its immigrants for the next 50 years" (TIME, Dec. 23). The limited-immigration question has been an issue since the 1920s but it has rarely been mentioned as a formal Arab demand since 1948. Some observers believe that Fahmy's comment was directed not only at Israel as a bargaining device but also...
...interview with Iranian Publisher Farhad Massoudi, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat described the current Middle East situation as "a time bomb that, unless defused, would explode." Sadat also said that he still has hope for negotiations, stressing that the momentum that began with the disengagement agreements last January and May must somehow be revived-either through U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's proposed step-by-step negotiations or through a Geneva conference, which the Soviet Union favors...
Sadat is steering an extremely careful course between the two superpowers. He knows that Kissinger would like to attempt another round of personal negotiations, which, it is hoped, would result in a further Israeli withdrawal in the Sinai. The Egyptian President also knows, however, that Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who will visit Cairo in mid-January, will emphasize the need for an early resumption of the Geneva conference, through which the Soviets might recoup some of the Middle East influence they lost last year when Sadat turned to the West for support and Kissinger scored his disengagement successes. Moreover...
...price of further Israeli withdrawal. For tactical reasons, Rabin has now set his sights much lower. He will not agree to give up the Abu Rudeis oilfields, which now provide Israel with 50% of its petroleum needs, or the Giddi and Mitla passes in the Sinai without substantial Egyptian concessions. But for a renewal of the terms of disengagement between Israel and Egypt, he says he is prepared to withdraw Israel's forces as much as 30 miles farther back into Sinai, though the two passes would remain in Israeli control. "Otherwise," says a Rabin aide, "we will retain...
Dermatologists at M.G.H. and the All-gemeines Krankenhausen in Vienna have modernized that technique. The new treatment combines the use of a drug called methoxsalen, which is extracted from the Egyptian plant, and an extraordinary high-intensity ultraviolet light. First the dermatologists have the patient swallow methoxsalen pills. Then they stand him in a telephone-booth-size closet lined with 48 of the special ultraviolet tubes. The patient stays in the booth from eight to 30 minutes, depending upon his degree of skin coloration...