Word: sadat
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...number of black African and Asian nations, including Guinea, Senegal, Malaysia and Pakistan, and they reportedly gained the support of 32 delegations. Libya, Syria and South Yemen boycotted the closing session, at which the invitation to Egypt was announced, but most delegates seemed delighted. Said a Pakistani: "Sadat is dead, and there's a new man in power who would desperately like to re-establish Egypt's position within the Islamic community." In the meantime, Egyptian officials declared that they hoped to meet with Jordan and the P.L.O. to seek a new approach for negotiating the return...
...transaction, or can it be applied in a political way to reconcile enemies? What if Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat forgave each other and came to some reconciliation, perhaps in the way Shamir's predecessor, Menachem Begin, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat did in 1977 when Sadat made his dramatic journey to Jerusalem? If John Paul could forgive the man who shot him, could sit with him and hold his hands, could not Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov have dinner some time? John Paul seemed to be suggesting that such...
...always right," declared an excited Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as he stood at the steps of Cairo's Kubbeh Palace awaiting the arrival of a surprise visitor. His guest: Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, who had shunned Egypt ever since Mubarak's predecessor, the late Anwar Sadat, took his search for peace to Jerusalem in 1977 and subsequently signed a peace treaty with Israel. Now, in one of those strange, unpredictable moments of diplomatic fluidity in the Middle East, alignments seemed to be shifting once more...
...some Middle East experts called it a "historic meeting"-had significance for both men. For Arafat it was a gamble, but also something of a diplomatic coup, coming so quickly after the expulsion from Tripoli. A rapprochement with Cairo, which had been isolated in the Arab world since the Sadat peace initiative, could lead to stronger ties between Arafat's segment of the P.L.O. and the moderate governments of Saudi Arabia and Jordan. It might even bring about a resumption of discussions between Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein to determine a common front in future negotiations with...
...Mubarak, the encounter with Arafat was a step toward an Egyptian reconciliation with much of the Arab world. Palestinian hard-liners called Arafat's move "treason," and Syria denounced him as "the new Sadat," but Arab moderates were delighted. As further indication that the Arabs' isolation of Egypt is ending, Jordan said that it would resume full-scale trading with Egypt for the first time in five years...