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Reagan transition officials will announce Pipes' appointment to the group headed by Robert G. Neumann, a former ambassador to Morocco and Afghanistan, today or in the next few days, sources said...
...cover the 1977 border skirmishes between Egypt and Libya for U.P.I., "But this was my first look at direct air attacks," says Zagorin. "It was a sobering and frightening experience." Meanwhile, Drozdiak was on his way back to Cairo from a four-day conference of Islamic ministers in Fez, Morocco, when the fighting erupted. He dashed to Rome to connect with an all-night flight to Kuwait, and by Friday he was surveying the bomb-shattered port town of Basra, Iraq. Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart hastened back to Beirut to coordinate TIME's coverage...
...four were anything but typical Israeli politicians. One of the Knesset members was Charlie Biton, 29, a Sephardic Jew from Morocco, and the other was Tewfik Toubi, 57, an Israeli Arab. The woman was Felicia Langer, an Israeli lawyer who frequently represents West Bank Palestinians in court. All are members of the pro-Moscow Israeli Communist Party, which is known as RAKAH and is part of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality. During the 20-minute conversation, Arafat said he was happy to meet "the peace forces of Israel...
...real meaning of the meeting lay in the apparent decision of the P.L.O. leader to make so conciliatory a gesture at this time. Even to some Israelis, the incident tended to lend credence to a telling public remark made by Morocco's King Hassan II last week. The P.L.O., said Hassan, was ready at long last to accept the existence of Israel "within secure and recognized boundaries," if Israel would agree to similar recognition of a Palestinian state. Said Uri Avnery, a prominent leftist member of the Knesset: "This has been in the works for years...
Shagari's clout was evident at the July summit of the Organization of African Unity in Freetown, Sierra Leone. When the organization threatened to founder over the divisive issue of Morocco's war against the Algeria-backed Polisario guerrillas in the former Spanish Sahara, Shagari defused the crisis with a compromise peace-keeping plan. Similarly, it was Nigeria's displeasure over the executions of 13 top officials in Liberia that ultimately forced the erratic new regime of Sergeant Samuel Doe to refrain from further bloodspilling. With the exception of those states that actually border South Africa, Nigeria...