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When the emaciated patient checked in under the private escort of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and his family, doctors who first examined the ex-Shah thought his state of health might be less grave than reported. Rumors circulated that the Shah had even felt fit enough to play a round of tennis a few days earlier in Panama. After Sadat emerged from a brief courtesy call to the Shah's third-floor suite Tuesday morning, he sounded relatively sanguine about the Shah's plight. Said the Egyptian President, grinning confidently: "He is running a high fever today...
...image to half a dozen screens inside. Behind the electronically controlled door, credentials are checked again, cameras and tape recorders yielded. An electronic detection booth checks further for hidden weapons; Marines stand ready to frisk thoroughly. Finally, when a member of the embassy staff emerges to provide a personal escort, the thoroughly inhibited visitor is allowed to penetrate into the inner sanctum...
...crowd broke into applause and cheers as a police escort led them past the headquarters of Democratic candidate Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., both announced opponents of registration...
...keep a fatherly eye on many of their onetime colonies and protectorates in Africa: last year, for example, Paris dispatched troops to help Chad put down a Libya-backed rebellion. Shortly after last week's clash in Gafsa, three French Navy warships-a cruiser, a frigate and an escort vessel -slipped out of their Mediterranean base at Toulon. The government claimed they were headed for maneuvers near Crete, but officials suggested that the ships would first "show themselves" off the Tunisian coast. In addition, the French have apparently sent transport planes and helicopters to Tunisia. Washington reinforced Paris...
...Commonwealth observers completed their deployment to monitoring posts throughout the country. After the cease-fire officially took effect at midnight last Friday, Rhodesian security forces began to retreat to their 42 military bases. Simultaneously, the guerrillas are supposed to come out of the bush and -under Commonwealth escort-complete their movement to 16 camps by the Jan. 4 assembly deadline. There, alongside Commonwealth troops, they will be housed until the establishment of an independent Zimbabwe government after the elections. The outcome of that vote, in which a 100-member Parliament will be divided into 80 black and 20 white seats...