Word: hosni
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arab world is the critical factor in Assad's thinking. Two weeks ago the 42-nation Islamic summit meeting in Casablanca invited Egypt to return to the group. Its membership had been suspended in 1979 after Cairo signed a peace treaty with Israel. The government of President Hosni Mubarak is anxious to do so, but only if this will not compromise its support of Camp David and of the pact with Israel. The next step may come in March, when Egypt's moderate friends will try to get Cairo readmitted to the 21-member Arab League, a step...
...that the moribund negotiations on autonomy for the West Bank's 800,000 Palestinians be revived, but he flatly ruled out involving Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat. Shamir's smile, however, could quickly fade. A senior diplomatic source told TIME in Cairo last week that during Hosni Mubarak's meeting with Arafat two weeks ago, the Egyptian President had agreed to take in some P.L.O. fighters. How many of Arafat's men might be stationed in Egypt was uncertain, and skeptical U.S. State Department officials said they knew of nothing resembling such an arrangement...
...proves that Egypt is always right," declared an excited Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as he stood at the steps of Cairo's Kubbeh Palace awaiting the arrival of a surprise visitor. His guest: Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, who had shunned Egypt ever since Mubarak's predecessor, the late Anwar Sadat, took his search for peace to Jerusalem in 1977 and subsequently signed a peace treaty with Israel. Now, in one of those strange, unpredictable moments of diplomatic fluidity in the Middle East, alignments seemed to be shifting once more...
...Soviet Union predictably accused the U.S. of "threatening peace and international security." Most countries in the region, however, welcomed the Western help. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been deeply concerned about Libyan intervention in Chad, fearing that one of Gaddafi's longer-term aims is to destabilize the Sudan, Egypt's southern neighbor and ally. Gaddafi has sponsored at least two attempts to topple Sudanese President Gafaar Nimeiri. Last February the U.S. responded to suspicious Libyan air force movements near the Sudanese border by deploying AWACS planes to Egypt and the aircraft carrier Nimitz off the Egyptian coast...
...Arab leaders, such as President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Jordan's King Husein, have made clear to the Administration that Reagan's Middle East peace initiative is now virtually dead without prior agreement on a withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon...