Word: hegira
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...hegira to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Israel and Jordan had, of course, far broader purposes. It constituted not only what some Nixon critics scorned as "impeachment diplomacy" but also sound foreign policy. His trip, said Nixon, was "another journey for peace," like his earlier trips to Moscow and Peking...
...Course. Still, there are some valid reasons for the President to set out now on a hegira through the Middle East, the first state tour of the Arab nations by any American President. Addressing graduating midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy last week, Nixon noted that the October war of last year made it "clear to us and clear to the moderate leadership of the Arab world that a positive American role was indispensable to achieving a permanent settlement in the Middle East." Referring to Kissinger's successful efforts in breaking the Israeli stalemate with Egypt and Syria, Nixon...
Kissinger called the negotiations between Israel and Syria "the most difficult and most complicated in my experience." The 34-day hegira was a typical Kissinger operation, clouded hi secrecy that was occasionally lifted by calculated leaks and above-the-clouds backgrounders by a "high Government official." For the Secretary, the extended negotiations presented special psychological and physical hardships. Psychologically, he was becoming the victim of his own success; each achievement made the succeeding goal more difficult to reach. Physically, he worked at a pace that left aides and accompanying newsmen limp with exhaustion. Days began with early breakfasts...
Moscow's next ranking Communist guest will be Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro. Some time this month he is due to begin a two-week tour of the Soviet Union, climaxing a two-month hegira that has already carried him through six African and East European countries. During his talks in the Kremlin, Castro will doubtless discuss continuation of Soviet aid to Cuba (more than $1.5 million per day) with-just conceivably-a new emphasis by the Soviets on what Cuba can do for them in the new era of détente...
Fidel Castro was less than complimentary when Houari Boumedienne replaced Ahmed Ben Bella as leader of revolutionary Algeria seven years ago. "A pimp," was the Cuban Premier's unbowdlerized estimate of Boumedienne. "A reactionary gorilla." Last week, as Castro visited Algeria in the course of a two-month hegira through Africa and the East bloc, Boumedienne had become "a great strategist" and Algeria under his rule was "a just society...