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...staunch U.S. ally, suddenly collapsed in an imbroglio triggered by the EgyptAir interception. In Cairo, university students poured into the crowded streets, burning American flags and chanting anti-U.S. slogans, while President Mubarak voiced his own sense of pain and humiliation over the incident. As Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres visited Washington, it also appeared that the Middle East peace initiative advanced by Jordan's King Hussein and Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, had been dealt yet another severe setback...
...Israeli revelations were broadcast the day before Prime Minister Shimon Peres arrived in Washington for a three-day visit with President Reagan and other U.S. officials. Said a senior Israeli official with satisfaction: "This meeting could not have happened at a better time." The Israelis were hoping to drive home their contention that Arafat's P.L.O. was associated with the recent terrorist acts, and therefore should be dealt out of the Middle East peace process. Peres apparently found a sympathetic ear. Said a senior U.S. official: "This time Arafat has shot himself in the foot with both barrels...
...answer, as Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres told TIME last week, is that "Israel will continue to act full force against terrorists, killers, murderers, assassins." He added: "Whoever wants peace (in the region) must stop terrorism. There can't be a compromise about...
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres insisted that the raid had been a response to a recent increase in P.L.O. terrorism. Said he: "It was an act of self-defense. Period." The Yom Kippur murders at Larnaca had shocked Israelis and intensified the pressure on Peres to take decisive action. But ! in the Arab world last week, the view was that Israel's real aim had been to torpedo the peace process...
Prime Minister Shimon Peres took office ten months ago determined to reform Israel's out-of-control finances. But when he tried to put the brakes on inflation last week, the country came briefly to a halt. With the U.S. pressuring him for action, Peres became the first Israeli leader ever to bypass the Knesset (parliament) with economic restrictions imposed by emergency decree...