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...exports or the Middle East conflict-were exhilarated. They saw both actions as proof that the industrialized West was vulnerable to collective pressures from the poor nations. "For the first time since the rise of Western capitalism, a decision affecting the world economy was taken outside the West," says Ismail Sabry Abdullah, director of Egypt's Institute of National Planning...
...belated revenge for the 1915 massacre of their countrymen in Turkey, and opium smugglers who believed they had been betrayed to the Austrian police by the Turkish authorities. Two days after the Vienna murder, gunmen in Paris opened fire on a car belonging to the Turkish ambassador to France, Ismail Erez, 56, who died along with his chauffeur. A clandestine Greek Cypriot group, the EOKA-B, quickly sought credit for the murder in Vienna, in retaliation for the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus. EOKA-B also said that it was responsible for the Paris murders, but its claim was disputed...
...front of other Arab nations. Especially sensitive to criticism from Damascus, which gained nothing in the latest round, Sadat told an interviewer: "Ford is personally working on a disengagement on the Syrian front. Syria knows there are particular matters we agreed on with the Americans." Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy said flatly that there would soon be a new disengagement on the Golan Heights. That prompted Israeli conservatives to demand-and get-a special parliamentary session for this week to debate the issue...
High marks must go to U.S. Ambassador to Cairo Hermann Eilts. A slight, crewcut, Arabic-speaking diplomat, Eilts has developed a close working relationship with Egypt's President Sadat and his Foreign Minister, Ismail Fahmy. Though he has a profound dislike of airplanes-he once drove two days from Aswan to Cairo just to avoid the one-hour flight-Eilts nonetheless made seven intercontinental trips between April 2 and last week, carrying messages between Sadat and Kissinger...
...Cairo interview with TIME Correspondent William Marmon, Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy accused the Israelis of bad faith: "They are always like this. They want to bargain-on every level and in every direction. They link everything to what they can get from the U.S. and this is blackmail. They know they must be out of the passes, but they want a price. They are trying to gain time. They are looking at the internal situation in the U.S. trying to figure out if Ford is the strong man, if Kissinger can last, if the Congress will respond to their tactics...