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...enough for the Egyptians to say privately to both the Syrian and Palestinian leaders that Cairo has not sold them out. "Sadat will not take a unilateral step in the forthcoming agreement," states Clovis Maksoud, who has served for the last year and a half as the Washington special envoy to the League of Arab States. "If an agreement is reached in the next few weeks, then it would have to include credible linkage acceptable to Syria...
...army! Alert the air force! Call Libya [an ally whose leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, is a fellow Moslem and fellow eccentric] and tell her to start sending airplanes here!" Later, complaining that Blair had been "undiplomatic, hot-tempered and totally drunk" during the talks, Amin charged that the envoy had threatened to order "British troops from Kenya" to invade Uganda, and that Britain had sent two warships "full of combat troops" to the Kenyan port of Mombasa...
...House, a team of six prominent Saudi Arabians completed a two-month swing through such cities as Cedar Rapids, St. Paul, Memphis and Denver. Lebanese Journalist and Spokesman Clovis Maksoud is in the midst of a four-month speaking mission from New York to Texas to California as special envoy of the 20-nation Arab League and chief Arab propagandist in the U.S. "It is important," says Maksoud, "that we catch up on 25 years of deficient communications, that we know each other through each other and not through the Israeli optic...
...Ministry has said that it will restaff its embassy in Saigon as soon as Tan Son Nhut airport is reopened to international flights. More surprising, Bangkok announced that it was establishing full diplomatic relations with North Korea. When South Korea protested and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos sent a special envoy urging Thailand to "rethink its move," Foreign Minister Chartichai Choonhavan had a blunt reply: "We have already rethought it." Thailand also announced that it would enter into a cultural and technological agreement with the Soviet Union...
Nixon named Scali U.N. envoy in December 1972, after Scali had finished two years as special consultant to the President for foreign affairs. Nixon admired Scali's grasp of world politics, and during his stay at the White House, Scali accompanied the President on his trips to the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. In the process, Scali also earned the dislike of Henry Kissinger. While in Washington, Scali bristled at the king-size Kissinger ego, and of late at the U.N. relations between the two men have grown increasingly strained. Scali was especially annoyed...