Word: mubarak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders on a Newstour of Eastern Europe and the Persian Gulf. From a lunch in Warsaw with General Wojciech Jaruzelski, just after he had been named the head of Poland's Communist Party, to an hour-long question-and-answer session with Egypt's new President Hosni Mubarak, the Newstour was where the breaking news was happening...
After leaving Oman at dawn, the homeward-bound group stopped in Cairo for its meeting with President Mubarak, who had succeeded the assassinated Anwar Sadat only three weeks before. Mubarak stressed his determination to rebuild relations with his estranged Arab brothers, and appealed for more U.S. investment in Egypt's troubled economy...
...triumph, the President proclaimed that "peace is again on the march in the Middle East," and Secretary of State Alexander Haig predicted that the deal "will inevitably contribute to stability and the peace process" in the area. There were some initial glimmers of hope: Egypt's new President Hosni Mubarak said that he would try to renew ties with Arab nations critical of the peace process, and Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat said that he welcomed a peace plan proposed last August by the Saudis that implicitly calls for coexistence between Israel and the Arab nations...
...network. Nearly a month before the murder, agents had uncovered a plot to kill Sadat in the Nile delta town of Mansura. Sadat had actually been shown video and sound recordings of armed members of Islamic extremist groups who were plotting his assassination, but gave the matter little thought. Mubarak himself added more details about the conspiracy against Sadat. The objective of the killers, he said, was to "physically liquidate" all of Egypt's top military, religious and political leadership in order to pave the way for an Iranian-style Islamic republic...
...Mubarak was also making a cautious effort to rebuild Egypt's relations with the Arab states that have shunned Cairo since Sadat boldly made his separate peace with Israel. Even so, he sent a delegation to Israel to resume negotiations on the Palestinian autonomy talks. Mubarak urged the Israelis to "be more flexible on matters of principle." A similar plea was made by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis. But the Israelis showed scant signs of modifying their refusal to grant the Palestinians any real autonomy. The talks that Sadat began still have a long...