Word: ismail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...step consisted of a visit to Washington by Hafez Ismail, 57, President Anwar Sadat's national security adviser, who is commonly described as Cairo's Henry Kissinger. Egypt lately has shown unaccustomed signs of willingness to discuss peace, if not to agree to specific terms. After visits to Moscow and London, Ismail sought, and was quickly granted the opportunity to become an American President's first direct Egyptian contact since relations between Washington and Cairo were severed in 1967. Ismail's visit suggested that Egypt is aware that the road to peace with Israel runs through...
...week's events in the Middle East could scarcely have come at a worse time. Still, Washington did its best to make its visitor from Egypt feel welcome. A tall, graying onetime ambassador to London, Paris and Rome, Ismail was expansively greeted by Nixon at the White House. "In this very troubled and explosive area of the world," said the President, "our major goal is to move things off dead center." Ismail, who brought a personal message to Nixon from Sadat, emphasized to his hosts the expectable point: Egypt does not intend to give up territory in any settlement...
Emerging from his Washington talks last week, Ismail told newsmen "there has been progress"-even though neither side had offered any new plans. Far livelier and franker discussions are likely to take place at the White House this week, when Mrs. Meir makes her annual shopping trip. In light of last week's events, the atmosphere may be rather cool...
SLOWLY, the Moroccan television cameras panned across a parade ground of the Moulay Ismail military barracks near Rabat. The scene was chilling: ten tall stakes driven into the ground at intervals, firing squads at the ready, and detachments of the Moroccan armed forces on hand as witnesses. Ten ranking officers-four generals, five colonels and a commandant-marched into view. Each was tied to a stake, each had his epaulets and insignia ripped from his uniform. Just before the firing squads triggered their lethal volleys, home screens were deliberately blacked out. There were only sounds: the condemned men shouting "Yaish...
...Cover: From a poster by Ismail Shammout for the Palestine Liberation Organization...