Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among their responsibilities, the CIA and the other U.S. intelligence agencies have provided psychological profiles of such key leaders as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin. Intelligence has supplied background information to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance on every step of his diplomacy in the Middle East. The CIA is probing the likely consequences of the French and West German elections later this year, the course of Sino-Soviet relations, the ethnic conflicts that could rend Yugoslavia after Tito dies, and the possibility of intervention there. Attempts by the U.S. to prepare for world political developments would...
...seemed, for a while. The Middle East peace initiative that began euphorically with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's "sacred mission" to Jerusalem appeared to have come to a wrenching halt. First, Sadat abruptly recalled his Foreign Minister, Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel, from negotiations in Jerusalem involving a declaration of principles for a comprehensive settlement. In retaliation, Israel announced that it would not return negotiators to the parallel military talks in Cairo, which dealt with possible Israeli troop withdrawals in the Sinai...
...Following the breakdown n the political talks, President Carter had urged Sadat not to cancel the military talks, which were then in recess. Sadat agreed not to do so, though Premier Menachem Begin had announced that he would not be sending his delegates back to he Cairo talks. The Egyptian President also said that informal "serious negotiations" with Israel were still going on; Atherton was apparently a key conduit. Begin later declared that he expected his Cabinet to authorize Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman to resume discussions in Cairo this week with his Egyptian counterpart, Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy...
...handed to him, the King turned to his interviewer, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn. "I suppose," said Hussein with a grim smile, "we should be speaking in the past tense." The King read the dispatch aloud: President Anwar Sadat had withdrawn his delegation from Jerusalem and summoned the Egyptian parliament into special session...
...smart cookie," says Pearl Bailey, who calls herself "more of a philosopher than an entertainer." At 59, Bailey has decided to get a college diploma, and enrolled last week at Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown University, where she plans to major in French and squeeze in classes in Islam, Egyptian art and philosophy. Drama is out, she says, because "I took it 40 years of my life." At registration, she was presented with front-row seats to school basketball games-and a book of freebie burger coupons...