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...month before he was assassinated, in 1981, President Anwar Sadat ordered the detention of Shenouda, eight bishops and 22 parish priests, accusing them of fomenting unrest. Since then, Shenouda has been forced to live at the 4th century Monastery of St. Bishoi, in the desert northwest of Cairo. In 1983 the government finally specified the charges against Shenouda. Among them: emphasizing a Coptic identity, urging churches to teach the old Coptic language, "encouraging hostility toward the regime" by asserting Copts' political grievances, and resisting legislation aimed at making Egypt more Islamic. Since then, however, Muslim and Christian enmity in Egypt...
...Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, last week's visit by King Hussein of Jordan was another step toward ending Egypt's isolation within the Arab world, which began when President Anwar Sadat accepted the Camp David accords and subsequently signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. For the Jordanian monarch, the three-day visit was aimed at forging a moderate Arab consensus in the Middle East. His plan: to convene a peace conference of all those with a stake in the region, including the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Soviet Union...
Although the two leaders agreed on the need for peace talks, they seemed to be at odds over the subject of the Camp David accords, which Hussein continues to oppose, even to the extent of declining to lay a wreath at Sadat's grave. Complained the King: "It eliminated the P.L.O. from the peace process...
Indeed, it is as difficult to imagine an India without Gandhi as it once was to picture, say, an Egypt without Sadat. Increasingly, the figure of a sari-wrapped woman with sharp features and a dramatic streak of gray hair has became symbolic for the whole subcontinent. But the fact that the name of Indira Gandhi has become synonymous for all of India points to the greatest problem now challenging the world's largest democracy, the eclipse of political institutions by personal rule. And as India's leaders look toward the future, it must be Indira's faults...
...Peres visited Washington and New York City, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was paying a courtesy call on King Hussein of Jordan to thank him for renewing diplomatic ties with Egypt last month. Like most other Arab states, Jordan broke relations with Cairo in 1979 after the late Anwar Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel. Since succeeding Sadat in 1981, Mubarak has worked hard to gain Arab approbation, giving Iraq strong backing in its war against Iran. Hussein decided to risk the wrath of Syria, Libya and other radical Arab states by restoring Jordan's formal ties with Egypt...