Word: hosni
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guerrillas embarked on a Red Cross vessel bound for Cyprus and Greece. Conspicuous among the countries that had not agreed to accept a significant number of P.L.O. evacuees was Egypt, which had been asked by the U.S. to take a group of 3,000 Palestinians. The government of President Hosni Mubarak refused, saying that the removal of the P.L.O. from Lebanon should be linked with diplomatic steps toward a comprehensive settlement of the Palestinian problem. Explained an Egyptian official: "When we signed the Camp David peace treaty, we were accused by other Arabs of only being concerned about a partial...
...rest of the Arab world, the disarray caused by the Lebanese invasion could lead to a significant realignment of forces. Because of his consistent criticism of the Israeli action, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak did much to redeem his country in the eyes of fellow Arabs. Moreover, Mubarak has developed an increasingly close relationship with Saudi Arabia, forming an axis of wealth and population. Together those moderate states could dominate the Arab world...
...Beirut or outside the city. The Israeli attacks, which aroused wide opposition around the world, came just as U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib reportedly was on the verge of working out an agreement for the Palestine Liberation Organization to evacuate Lebanon. The assaults also angered Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and thus jeopardized any resumption of the Camp David talks with Israel in search of a long-term settlement of the Palestinian issue...
...reaction of most Arab states to the Israeli invasion has been more muted than even the Israelis had expected. But Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was said by a Western diplomat to be "angry, frustrated and humiliated" over the whole affair. The presumption was that the Camp David peace process had contributed, in a marginal way, to Israel's decision to launch the invasion, since the agreement had neutralized Egypt and thus reduced Israel's need to worry about its southern border...
King Fahd is expected to work toward a reconciliation with Egypt, from whom the Saudis have been estranged since Egypt and Israel signed their peace treaty in 1979. In a public gesture that confirmed his declared intention to improve ties with his Arab neighbors, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak flew to Riyadh last week to offer his condolences on Khalid's death. He and Fahd, who remained in discreet contact after 1979, embraced warmly at Riyadh airport...