Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talks alternating between Egyptian and Israeli towns produced the Camp David Accords in 1979. It is the only existing peace treaty between the Jewish state and any of its Arab neighbors. The Israelis see no reason to abandon a framework that worked in the past...
...Citizens," Levy said of the Egyptian and Israeli populations in 1979, "gradually got the true sense that talks were going on. Egypt, like the other Arab states, does not allow freedom of the press. Seeing the motorcade pass through your village may be the only way a Syrian, Jordanian, or Lebanese knows that peace might exist with the Jewish neighbor...
Bush should shift gears, turn his finger away from Israel and pressure the Arabs to show up on Israeli soil. It was Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's trip to Jerusalem in 1977 that sparked the Camp David Accords. A similar confidence-building measure from the Arabs now could really jumpstart the peace process...
...United Nations' African bloc, the election last week of Egyptian diplomat Boutros Boutros Ghali as the new Secretary-General to succeed the retiring Javier Perez de Cuellar was a semisweet victory. The Africans had engineered their continent's first turn at the helm of the world organization -- and had outmaneuvered the big guns of the U.S. and Britain to achieve it. But Ghali was the "least African" candidate put forward by a bloc that dearly wanted to see the job go to a sub-Saharan black...
...Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister who will lead the U.N. into the new world order defies categorization. He won under the African banner, but he is not black. He is an Arab who is a Coptic Christian with a Jewish wife. He represents the Third World with the stamp of Paris-honed sophistication; he is the son of a wealthy family, the grandson of a Prime Minister. He was widely considered old for the demanding job but was criticized for campaigning for it too vigorously...