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...desert town of Beersheba, in Israel's Negev area. The opening discussions were slightly clouded by a last-minute dispute between Egypt and Israel over whether the two nations would open their borders immediately, as Israeli Premier Menachem Begin says Sadat promised earlier this spring, or at the end of nine months, as called for by the treaty. Nonetheless, Sadat and Begin were scheduled to open an air corridor between the two countries by flying in an Egyptian 707 from Tel Aviv to Cairo and back, without landing...
...mandate from the President," he told TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein. "I consider myself a full partner with him and the Secretary of State." In mid-May, Strauss announced that he would make his first visit to Cairo and Jerusalem in his new role at the end of June, two months earlier than he originally intended. This burst of energy in his new assignment caused some concern in Washington that as a confessed novice in the nuances of Middle Eastern diplomacy, Strauss might complicate U.S. problems in this sensitive region, especially as Palestinian autonomy talks got under...
...strong, active negotiator," Strauss says. "I'm not a passive negotiator. I'm not a meditative pipe-smoking type who sits and listens and then summarizes at the end. I'm very aggressive...
...Akbar Hashimi Rafsanjani, a close associate of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, charged that U.S. policymakers were responsible for the death of every Iranian killed during the revolution. "Who gave the deposed Shah his weapons?" asked Rafsanjani. "Who supported him as long as he could kill?" At week's end Rafsanjani was himself shot and wounded in an assassination attempt by Forghan, a terrorist group that earlier killed a former army chief of staff and Ayatullah Morteza Motahari, one of Iran's leading theologians...
...used torture and murder as instruments of policy. In one hourlong televised interview last week, a former interrogator for SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, broke down as he delivered a chilling account of the atrocities that had been committed during the Shah's reign. At the end, the announcer asked...