Word: sadat
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...bomb exploded in a Jewish student restaurant, injuring 26, and two explosions in Israel killed one bystander and wounded 28. Still another bomb damaged the Israeli mission in Ankara. Even in Peking, a band Palestinian students marched on of the Egyptian embassy, smashed windows, tore down a portrait of Sadat and injured several Chinese soldiers...
...Saud remained impassive as the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat argued for an economic boycott of both Egypt and the U.S. Declared Arafat: "l don't just want to cut off the tail of the snake, I want to crush its head. The U.S. is the head and Sadat the tail...
Prince Saud was even more incensed when Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, issuing a statement in Tripoli, denounced Sadat as a traitor and added that "the real cause" behind Sadat's behavior was "the hypocrites and chameleons who nurture treachery and finance it." That sounded like an attack on the Saudis, who are giving at least $1.5 billion a year in aid to prop up Egypt...
...moderate allies from Kuwait and the oil sheikdoms along the Persian Gulf, succumbed to radical pressure. They were able to head off a retaliatory program directed at the U.S. But after the P.L.O., Syria and Libya stalked out of the meeting to underscore their demands for drastic action against Sadat, the moderates joined in the unanimous approval of a political, diplomatic and economic boycott that will virtually expel Egypt from the Arab world...
Under the agreement, the countries will withdraw their ambassadors from Cairo and cut off diplomatic relations with Sadat's government. Egypt's membership in the Arab League will be suspended, and the organization's headquarters will be shifted from Cairo to Tunis. Technical and financial assistance to Egypt will be canceled. A ban on petroleum shipments to Egypt will be imposed. It was unclear, though, how all this would affect bilateral agreements like Saudi aid. In any case, it is likely that Arab heads of state will soon confer to determine exactly how the anti-Egyptian boycott...