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...Marxist-ruled Ethiopia. It also lies just across the Red Sea from Saudi Arabia. The U.S. has considered the country an ideal staging area for its forces in the event of a military threat to the gulf region. Even when Arab nations shunned the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for entering peace negotiations with Israel, Nimeiri was staunchly pro- Western and firmly allied with Egypt. The U.S. has attempted to ensure Khartoum's loyalty by granting about $200 million in economic aid and $19 million in military assistance to Sudan, more than to any other African nation except Egypt. While...
That disagreement took the bloom off the Camp David accords, made it far more difficult for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to convince other Arabs that he had not sold out the Palestinian cause, and helped catapult the peace process into the limbo in which it remains today. How did the confusion arise? In a new book, Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics, published last week by the Brookings Institution, Middle East Expert William Quandt, a staff member of the National Security Council during the Carter Administration and a participant in the Camp David talks, provides an insider's account...
Under most circumstances, hotel officials would have called on the Central Security Force, the 250,000-man group created by former President Anwar Sadat to control such disturbances. This time, however, that option was foreclosed: the marauders were themselves members of the police force. About 8,000 police conscripts, angered by rumors that the government planned to lengthen their low-paying tour of duty, abandoned their barracks and took to the streets. For the next two days, mobs of civilian troublemakers and looters, including Muslim fundamentalists and leftist students, joined the rioting policemen. It was the most serious domestic unrest...
...violent outburst was a sobering reminder of the potentially volatile problems that Mubarak faces. Over the past 4 1/2 years, he has enjoyed moderate success with his foreign policy initiatives, most notably raising Egypt's status in the Arab world, which had shunned the country after Sadat signed the 1979 peace treaty with Israel. But he has been less successful at home. Egypt's already shaky economy continues to suffer setbacks. Even before hotels were attacked last week, the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro last October and other terrorist incidents in the region had caused a severe drop...
More than any other Arab leader apart from the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, King Hussein of Jordan has worked for a negotiated settlement of the explosive Arab-Israeli conflict. Last week, drained after months of unsuccessful efforts to enlist Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, into the peace process, Hussein announced that he had reached "an end to another chapter in the search for peace...