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...Arthur Shay Deerfield...
After everyone was seated in the conference room, Sadat suddenly clapped his hands twice and shouted: "Ahwa, shay"-coffee, tea. A pair of waiters carrying trays of tea and Turkish coffee came hurriedly into the room and served the delegates. Reaching for a glass of green shay, Sadat recalled: "I drank very good tea in Jerusalem." The Israelis never ceased being startled throughout the conference by the Egyptian President's hand clapping...
With ahwa and shay served, Sadat raised his glass and declared: "This is a happy day in my life, to have you seated here, facing us in Ismailia and discussing substance and not procedure." When he expressed his pleasure at having the conference "close to the place where Moses crossed the sea," Begin quipped: "It took Moses 40 years to cross the desert on his way to the Promised Land, while it took us only 40 minutes to cross...
Shaw then gave the crowd a few more ulcers, winning a pair of tie-breakers to edge Columbia's Joe Perez, 7-6, 6-3, 7-6. Down 5-4 in the third set and returning serve, Shay hit hot streak and broke Perez's service with a series of brilliant shots. "I've never hit so many good shots in one game in my life," Shaw said after the match. But he still had a few good ones in store, and he pulled them out to snag the tiebreaker...
Covering the civil war in newly independent Angola (see THE WORLD) was a perilous task for TIME'S Salisbury-based stringer (part-time correspondent) Reg Shay and Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs. Shay had to leave the new West African nation last week when a Luanda official decided he might be "a CIA Rhodesian spy." Griggs has covered the independence of nine other former colonies since his first African assignment 16 years ago, so he knew just what to do when soldiers began carrying out predawn identity checks at his hotel. "When the first 4 a.m. knock came...