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Outraged that the Egyptian attack was launched on Yom Kippur, the solemn Jewish Day of Atonement, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban called it "blasphemous." The Grand Sheik Abdel Halim Mahmoud, Egypt's highest religious authority, proclaimed the war a jihad, a holy war. "We are fighting as the early Moslems fought against the infidels," he declared in Cairo's Al Azhar mosque. "All the dead in battle are sure of paradise." In Saudi Arabia, the Interior Ministry urged its citizens to "destroy the enemies of religion...
While his troops surrounded the plane, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktum, 26, Defense Minister of the Emirates, tried to talk the skyjackers into letting the passengers go. He asked them to name a price, but they refused to discuss money. Were they interested in exchanging the passengers for some political prisoner? the Defense Minister asked. "It was strange, very strange," mused Maktum. "All they ever asked for was sandwiches, ice, breakfast, lunch and dinner." Their only explanation: "We are awaiting instructions from our headquarters...
Talks were begun by Emirate Defense Minister Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid, who was allowed on board the plane, but no progress was reported...
Reflecting the deep distrust that Arabs once felt for banks, the Sheik of Abu Dhabi ten years ago stashed his oil money in the dungeon of his palace, where he could keep an eye on it-even though rats kept nibbling away at his profits. Now the rich gush of oil cash into Abu Dhabi and such other Arab states as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Libya has forced a change of attitude...
Last month India and Bangladesh proposed a new settlement calling for simultaneous repatriation of the P.O.W.s, the Biharis and the Bengalis. To sweeten the offer, Bangladesh's Prime Minister, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, dropped his insistence that Pakistan formally recognize his country prior to negotiations. Dacca also scaled down the number of Pakistani soldiers it wants to try for atrocities committed during the war from 2,500 to less than...