Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has made it diplomatically clear that the U.S. expects an end to the embargo as a quid pro quo for his peacemaking efforts in the Middle East, and the most influential Arab leaders have been responsive. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has been pressing the oil-producing states to resume shipments to the U.S. King Faisal of Saudi Arabia agrees; his oil minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, stated flatly last week that the embargo had served its purpose and should be scrapped...
Shortly before noon one day last week, startled soldiers of the battle-tested Egyptian Second Army intercepted an Israeli bus that had broached their perimeter near the Suez Canal. While troops in command cars trained machine guns on the vehicle, an Egyptian colonel boarded it and discovered that his men had just captured, of all people, 28 prosperous young American business and professional men who were on a United Jewish Appeal fund-raising tour...
...Israeli officials had sent the "young leadership group" on a supposedly routine bus trip through the captured Sinai territory that Israel is about to relinquish. After a picture-taking session at a United Nations checkpoint, however, the bus strayed too far down the Ismailia-Tassa road and into Egyptian hands...
...hard to decide whether captors or captives were more flustered. The U.J.A. fund raisers were kept aboard their bus for two hours by Egyptian soldiers while the colonel tried to decide what to do with his catch. Finally, he decided that the group should go to army headquarters in Ismailia for interrogation and asked them to blindfold themselves with handkerchiefs or coats. "Most of us used handkerchiefs," said Howard Stone, a full-time U.J.A. official in New York City. "It was easier to peek that way." Cracked one American as the bus drove off: "Now remember, you are only required...
...Ismailia, the Egyptians confiscated the prisoners' cameras and film and subjected them to a thorough grilling. Somewhat to his surprise, Stone was asked detailed questions about the table of organization of the hard-sell U.S. organization as well as on U.J.A. techniques for fund raising and the uses to which its gifts are put. Stone told as much as he knew, but that was not enough. At one point, Stone said later, his Egyptian interrogator pulled a dossier on the U.J.A. but of a desk drawer and demanded petulantly: "O.K. Let's go through this again...