Word: isreal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egyptian government yesterday ordered the Soviet Union and four other Eastern European nations to close their consulates and cultural centers outside Cairo, because it said those nations have tried to undermine Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's recent peace overtures to Isreal...
More importantly, at Rabat, Egypt joined with the other Arab nations in endorsing the PLO, the blanket Palestinian terrorist organization committed to the liquidation of the Jewish state of Isreal. The PLO's past achievements are all too familiar. The murders of the children in Maalot, the diplomats at Khartoum and the 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games are merely the first that come to mind...
However, in recent weeks, it has compromised its original peacemaking intentions. Israel claims that Egypt has violated their disengagement agreement. Egypt has upped the ante on the Suez Canal, requiring Isreal to make yet another withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula before Egypt will open the canal--a clear sign of bad faith...
...true that anytime a team travels to a country, it is condoning that country's policies. But when a nation's policies are highly controversial, the trip may possibly be interpreted as an act of approval. This same question would arise if the team decided to go to Isreal. Members of the Harvard community would feel strongly both for and against such a trip. In all fairness, therefore, the administration should at some point consider both poles of sentiment in reaching a decision about the trip to Egypt...
...Somers H. Sturgis, an obstetrician and gynecologist at UHS, and Dr. Carol Nadelson, assistant professor of Psychiatry and an affiliate of Boston's Beth Isreal Hospital, were two of three physicians Baird's lawyers called to testify...