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...pressures mounted by the hour. The Egyptian government recalled its Ambassador to Israel, Sa'ad Mortada. Rioting by Palestinians broke out in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Leaders of Israel's 650,000-member Arab community declared a one-day strike. More than 100 top Israeli generals met privately and protested Sharon's actions. Even Sharon passed the word that he had asked the Prime Minister for some kind of probe...
...Aviv, Egypt's Ambassador to Israel, Sa'ad Mortada, was host at an early afternoon reception at his modern residence north of the city to celebrate his country's "victory" in the 1973 war. It was hardly a popular party, understandably, and not one Israeli Cabinet minister was present, but the ambience was congenial as the guests?a sprinkling of ambassadors, some journalists, a handful of academics?sipped drinks on the patio. Then U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis arrived and took Mortada away from the reception line...
...they huddled in serious conversation, Mortada's face went white. Soon others learned that something terrible had occurred in Cairo and scurried to back rooms to hover around radios. By then, Radio Cairo was broadcasting only music...
...some problems remain we closed the cycle of hostility, opening the chapter of blooming peace." So ended President Yitzhak Navon's welcoming speech to Saad Mortada, 57, Egypt's first Ambassador to Israel. A mood of lighthearted camaraderie followed the formal red-carpet ceremony as the two men joked and chatted together in Arabic. Before they parted company, hearty salvos of laughter were echoing through the main hall of Navon's official residence in Jerusalem. Mortada was so besieged with requests for interviews and invitations to dinner that he asked, "Does every new ambassador get this treatment...
...uncertain phase in the changing relationship between Israel and Egypt. Last weekend, in accordance with the timetable agreed upon at Camp David, formal diplomatic relations between the two nations were established. Ambassadors will not be exchanged for another month, although both countries have already named them: Saad Mortada will represent Egypt in Tel Aviv, and Eliahu Ben Elissar will be Israel's man in Cairo. Telephone, telex and postal links were also opened, and direct air service between Tel Aviv and Cairo is set to begin soon...
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