Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Evans comes into the Freshman Union at mealtime, trays and chairs are feverishly pushed aside to make room for him. When he gets to the table he announces that the cannot stay long, "I'm hurrying to get to a lecture that is being given by a prominent Egyptian scholar on the genetic inferiority of Jews." Everyone laughs and then he sits down and unravels a series of stories and jokes, some with very pointed morals, most dripping with the folklore of Evans' southern, rural, black background...
...order to preserve the show of unity, Gaddafi permitted the meeting to take place, but he proved a less than gracious host. According to Egyptian newspapers, he showed his displeasure by sending in a huffy note declaring that, "I will not have Libya tarnished by having an announcement on lifting the oil embargo against the U.S. issued in Tripoli." Reportedly, the ministers nevertheless reached a compromise proposed by Algeria: the embargo will be lifted soon, but that decision will be reviewed in two months. If, in the Arab view, the U.S. has not kept up sufficient pressure on Israel...
...after noisy day on the Golan Heights, Syrian and Israeli gunners fought artillery duels. In Jerusalem, Premier Golda Meir hurled a few verbal shells at both Syria and the Palestinians. In interviews with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan (see box below and on page 40), both Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Mrs. Meir displayed a measure of perhaps ritualistic truculence...
Ikingi Maryut is a small green retreat in the Western Desert outside Alexandria, where Egyptian President Anwar Sadat last April reached his fateful decision to go to war with Israel. There last week Sadat received Hedley Donovan and gave his first interview with a representative of a Western publication since the war. Wearing a gray turtleneck sweater, slacks and sports jacket, Sadat puffed his pipe and broke into confident laughter from time to time as he ranged widely over a number of topics. Among the questions and answers...
...does disengagement on the Syrian front seem so much more difficult to achieve than Egyptian-Israeli disengagement...