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...P.L.O. refuses to do this without concomitant recognition from Israel, but its leaders have suddenly seemed to be amenable to compromises. Farouk Kaddoumi, who acts as the organization's foreign minister, complained predictably that "our rights are fundamental, not negotiable." But he also indicated, for the first time, some give on the question of Palestinian representation at Geneva in the U.A.D...
...Fahmy's judgment that the P.L.O. was eager for official talks with U.S. diplomats. This was borne out in Paris, where the P.L.O.'s de facto Foreign Minister, Farouk Kaddoumi, told TIME's Robert Kroon: "We will not object to going to Geneva as part of a single Arab delegation, provided we get separate invitations from the U.S. and Soviet cochairmen." One bar to P.L.O. participation is Washington's insistence that the organization endorse United Nations Resolution 242, which calls for "secure borders" for all nations in the area-an implicit recognition of Israel...
Died. Prince Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, 77, cousin of Egypt's late King Farouk; in Paris. A man about town in Los Angeles and New York City during the Prohibition Era, the prince associated with sportsmen and Hollywood luminaries. A yachtsman, he became a designer of sailing ships...
Sudden Tornado. Last week the festering resentment finally broke into a shrill serenade of street violence that escalated to the worst riots Egypt has witnessed since King Farouk was dethroned 25 years ago. The trigger: an announcement by Deputy Premier for Economics Abdel Moneim Kaissouni of sharp cutbacks in food subsidies. That, in turn, meant price increases in government stores of as much as 50% for a loaf of bread, while the cost of sugar leaped 25%, tea 35% and bottled gas, which Egyptians use for cooking and heating, 50%. In a country where the average wage is only...
...Senator Edward M. Kennedy: "He will probably be our next President. Every country should have at least one King Farouk...