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...Henry Kissinger flew from Washington last week for a seven-day journey of mediation through the Middle East, his sixth such trek in the past two years. Kissinger reached Cairo on the first leg of his flight to seven capitals (the others: Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem, Riyadh, Algiers and finally Rabat) during the Moslem penitential month of Ramadan. The Secretary of State was unable to meet with fasting President Anwar Sadat until after sundown; Kissinger thus had to while away several hours sightseeing. As he flew out of Cairo, a Secret Service agent's submachine gun-an Israeli-made...
...return of the West Bank, but the King could not occupy it militarily until a plebiscite was held among Palestinians to decide which government they preferred. Sadat had discussed the idea with P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat, and will bring it up again at an Arab summit in Rabat next week...
...jointly decided that the militant Palestine Liberation Organization was the proper authority rather than King Hussein. But Sadat and Hussein later agreed that the King is "a legitimate spokesman" for the Palestinians. A compromise, which is expected to be ratified at an Arab summit called for Oct. 26 in Rabat, would let both Hussein and the P.L.O. speak for Jordan's Palestinians...
...soon became clear that the role of trip's jester had fallen to Sisco. His bombastic humor-not to mention the shaggy old yellow golf sweater he invariably wore aloft-made him a natural for the part. His first big moment occurred as the plane was landing at Rabat, when a large Xerox copier suddenly broke loose and slid toward him. The machine stopped short of crashing into the horrified Assistant Secretary, but not before someone yelled: "Oh, my God, stop it! We can't have more than one Joe Sisco on this trip...
...their smooth, rolling contours can't be missed in his later handling of hats in "Hat Factory" (Luzzara Italy, 1953) (seen in the remarkable tow-violence retrospective monograph published by Aperture this year), and even in the Chiaroscuro of dark and light is such foreign architectural structures as "Gateway" (Rabat, Morocco...