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...Iraqi reconciliation implied by the condemnation of Iran will take concrete form in the next two weeks. Diplomatic relations will be restored, common borders will be reopened, and a dialogue between the governments will begin. For the moment, however, ! Syria is not severing its alliance with Iran. Foreign Minister Farouk Shara'a said, after the summit ended, that "Syria is against condemning Iran because it wasn't the beginner...
Besse's murder took place as another terrorist drama unfolded in a West Berlin courtroom. Opening amid tight security, the trial of Palestinians Ahmed Hasi and Farouk Salameh brought forward evidence that the Syrian government was linked to the March bombing in West Berlin of the German-Arab Friendship Society offices, which left nine people injured. The trial provided a bizarre sideshow. Screaming and gesturing wildly from behind a bulletproof screen, Hasi claimed that "voices, sounds and music" were being piped into his cell to make him confess. The frenzied defendant is the brother of Nezar Hindawi, a Jordanian...
When some calm was restored, Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa said: "We've done everything we could do to get the release of the hostages and will continue...
...Alexandria summit was the twelfth meeting between the leaders of Israel and Egypt since 1977, but only the first since 1981. The talks took place in the beige, horseshoe-shaped Ras el Tin Palace, once the summer residence of King Farouk, Egypt's last monarch, and now used by the government for official purposes...
...Marcos accounting, a central question--what might be called the Farouk Conundrum--kept arising. The conundrum was prefigured by Farouk's grandfather, Khedive Ismail, a grandee who died in 1895 while trying to guzzle two bottles of champagne in one draft. Khedive Ismail kept a harem of 3,000 women. The central question posed by Ismail's harem, by Farouk's oysters and by Marcos' billions is this: Why, exactly...