Word: hosni
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...plan calling for an interim period of Palestinian autonomy, telescopes the earlier agreement's five-year time span into a matter of months. The Reagan Administration's newfound sense of urgency was clearly inspired by the latest Palestinian uprising. The U.S. was also prodded into action by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who in Washington two weeks ago promoted a plan calling for a six-month truce and the convening of an international conference. The Administration combined some of Mubarak's suggestions with elements of previous proposals into what Secretary of State George Shultz last week called a "blend of ideas...
...counter Iranian aggression, the gulf council reportedly raised the possibility of Egyptian military assistance. The entire council, except for Oman, had broken ties with Cairo when it made peace with Israel in 1979. Those relationships have now been restored. Next week Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who has spoken of the "indivisible security" of his country and the gulf, will visit the region. Egyptian officers already train pilots and antimissile personnel in Kuwait. Although Cairo is not ready to station troops ( in the gulf, the renewed solidarity between Egypt and the Arab states sends a cautionary signal to Tehran...
Israel's crackdown poses a special problem for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose country signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. The Palestinian riots tapped a deep vein of anti-Israeli sentiment within Egypt that a decade of peace has failed to dry up. Though Mubarak denounced Israel's "methods of repression and persecution," he resisted pressure from many of his countrymen and other Arab leaders to take stronger steps, including withdrawing his ambassador from Tel Aviv and breaking trade and cultural agreements...
...streets were hung with political posters and multicolored banners, and noisy crowds gathered for campaign speeches. But when 12.7 million Egyptians went to the polls last week, only one candidate was on the ballot, President Hosni Mubarak, and he was approved for a new six-year term with 97% of the vote...
Among the book's other disclosures: Bashir Gemayel, the Christian leader assassinated after being elected President of Lebanon in 1982, had been on the CIA payroll for years; the agency monitored Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's phone conversations during the Achille Lauro crisis; and Argentine officials supplied intelligence data to the CIA during the Falklands war, information that was passed along to Britain, Argentina's enemy in the conflict. Woodward relates that a suspect being interrogated for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Lebanon died after being tortured by a CIA officer with an electroshock device. (The officer...