Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roam instead of being confined to fixed positions. One reason: Damascus, Syria's capital, is only 30 miles from the present front. Syria also objected to an Israeli proposal that a high-flying U.S. SR-71 reconnaissance plane monitor the ceasefire, like the one that surveys Israeli and Egyptian positions in Sinai...
...Rather than aborting the talks, stark terror apparently convinced the negotiators that they should work more earnestly. During his most recent round of shuttle diplomacy, the Secretary of State flew seven times round trip between Jerusalem and Damascus. At week's end he was scheduled to drop in on Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Cairo and then return to Washington. But then, as both sides appeared ready to agree to a line on which they would disengage, he postponed his trip home and stayed on to work out details...
...measure of the change that Sadat has already wrought in Egyptian society is that some of his policies are being openly criticized by the intellectual fringe of what is still a very loyal opposition. Some complain that he is abandoning Nasser's vision of Egypt as an Arab socialist community. Others charge that he has built up excessively high hopes based on what Kissinger's diplomacy may achieve, and is risking a bitter backlash. Even American diplomats have gently tried to warn him that U.S. aid may not be forthcoming in quite the amount he expects. Tacitly, Sadat...
...Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is often ill at ease in his office in Cairo's Abdin Palace. Its confined formality, he tells visitors, reminds him of prisons he was sent to for revolutionary plotting in Egypt's "colonial "days. Sadat is far more relaxed when he stays at one of his presidential resthouses outside Cairo. Recently, over tea and Turkish coffee in a resthouse beside the pyramids, he discussed his plans and dreams for Egypt with TIME Correspondents Wilton Wynn and Karsten Prager. Among his points...
...EGYPTIAN PRIDE. Nasser was the first true Egyptian to rule this country in more than 2,000 years. But in spite of all that foreign domination, our personality never dissolved. One of the principal elements in the success of our battle last October was the faith of every Egyptian, the pride he feels for his land, and the very name Egypt itself...