Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel-to meet here in Cairo and prepare for a Geneva conference." He told the cheering Egyptian national People's Assembly that he was prepared to be host to such a meeting as early as this week. Sadat's announcement caught the eligible participants-Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the U.S. and the Soviet Union-by surprise. The Israelis indicated that they were willing to attend. Syria, seething over Sadat's overtures to Israel, rejected the invitation flatly. The U.S. was interested- but not in being the only other party at an Israeli-Egyptian minisummit. At week...
...speech, provided the only surprise of the day. He declared that "our country is open to all the citizens of Egypt without any condition, and may the visitors be many." In return, Begin said, he hoped to visit Cairo too, and he issued a call to Syria, Jordan and Lebanon "to come and talk...
...from the Arab League. Radio Baghdad called the trip a "Pan-Arab catastrophe" and Sadat himself a traitor. Saiqa, the Syrian-backed Palestinian group vowed to assassinate Sadat for committing "the ugliest treason" in Arab history. Syria declared a day of mourning and lowered flags to half-staff. In Lebanon, where Syrian peace-keeping troops have forbidden protest demonstrations, the ban was lifted during Sadat's trip...
...ordered to cease firing by Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Earlier in the week, Arafat had been present at an extraordinary nationally televised address to the Egyptian parliament by President Anwar Sadat, who did not even mention the air raids that had just taken place in Lebanon. Declared Sadat: "There is no time to lose. I am ready to go to their house, to the Knesset, to discuss peace with the Israeli leaders...
...capital in the near future. In fact, Sadat immediately brushed off Begin's appeal as an attempt to divide the Arabs on the eve of their Mideast strategy meeting in Tunis. Nonetheless, the proposals were certainly a more hopeful exchange than the deadly one that racked southern Lebanon last week...