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...President Nixon had been warned in his recent tour of the area, before peace would be possible. Last week's events also showed that the Palestinian issue had become so overriding that moderate Arab leaders were wary about even appearing to be against the fedayeen cause. Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry announced that he was commuting the life sentences passed on the eight fedayeen who killed U.S. Diplomats George C. Moore and Cleo A. Noel Jr. and Belgian Guy Eid in a raid on Khartoum (TIME, March 12, 1973). The men are now to serve seven years in the "custody...
...last week over a stretch of Kuwaiti oil land that Iraq claims as its own; in fact, the Iraqis claim all of Kuwait, not only for its oil but also for its wider access to the Persian Gulf. Both Jordan's King Hussein and Sudan's President Jaafar Numeiry were troubled by the Palestinian Black September terrorists in their jails: Hussein decided to commute the death sentences of 16 guerrillas but to hold them in prison, while Numeiry proceeded with plans to try eight Black Septembrists for the murder of the American and Belgian diplomats last month...
...Arab leaders, the one most openly furious about the Khartoum massacre was Sudan's President Jaafar Numeiry. In a bitter, bristling 45-minute speech over Sudanese radio and television, Numeiry swore that the eight Black Septembrists would be tried and punished for "a crime we will not forgive." They had committed, he charged, "a criminal, rash action devoid of revolutionary spirit and bravery...
Sudanese authorities reacted swiftly but cautiously. Police formed a cordon around the embassy but stayed two blocks back for fear of endangering the hostages' lives. President Jaafar Numeiry called his Cabinet into emergency session. Assured by the Cabinet that there would be no attempt to storm the embassy, the terrorists allowed a doctor inside to treat the wounds of Noel and Eid. Then came a long string of demands delivered by telephone...
...Marxist-oriented I.R.A. Official branch offered the unkindest rebuttal of all. When a Communist-backed revolt broke out in Sudan last year, one official remembered, Gaddafi captured some rebels as they passed through Libya and handed them over to Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry for execution. That, said the I.R.A., hardly qualified him as a fellow revolutionary...