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...hours before the Egyptian President spoke to the Knesset. The location was the King David Hotel. Sadat, who customarily eats a late breakfast and skips lunch, sipped juice and coffee while the five other participants-Begin, Dayan, Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin, Sadat Aide Hassan Kamel and Egyptian Socialist Liberal Party Leader Mustafa Kamel Murad-ate heartily. Once pleasantries were over, Dayan was the first to talk about substance: "Let's hear what you expect from...
Responding to sharp Palestinian criticism of his trip, Sadat on his return home shut down the Egyptian Voice of Palestine, a P.L.O. radio station, and expelled 20 Palestinians who had tried to organize demonstrations against his mission. He also arranged for Egypt's majority political group, the Arab Socialist Party, to invite leaders of Palestinian Arabs who live on the West Bank to Cairo for consultations about the resumption of Geneva talks. The invitation pointedly called on the Palestinian people "to differentiate between those who seek peace and those who want to destroy everything...
...symbolic winner in the election was Andreas Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), which doubled its vote to 25% and won 92 seats, thereby becoming Greece's second leading party and the main opposition. PASOK overtook George Mavros' middle-of-the-road Democratic Center Union, which fell to 12% of the vote and won only 15 seats. On the far right, the new National Rally Party won 7% and five seats; on the far left, Greece's two Communist parties-one Moscow-lining, the other Eurocommunist in outlook and running jointly with other splinter groups-garnered...
This time it was jubilant PASOK supporters who celebrated and Papandreou who claimed victory. To the cheers of a partisan crowd that gathered outside as the returns piled up, the fiery socialist Papandreou sauntered happily into the government election center and lifted both hands high in the classic V sign. At their old headquarters building in the commercial and student section of Exarheia, youthful, bearded PASOK workers joyfully embraced as they heard the news about notable new Deputies who had won election: Actress Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday), comfortably elected-to a seat representing the port of Piraeus-after...
...least 60 years of acting experience. He can hardly remember a moment when he was not acting-if only for himself. He was born in New York City and spent his early childhood in Bayside, a pinkish nook of Queens. His grandmother had been private secretary to Socialist Leader Eugene Debs. His father was a passionate Zionist, and his mother was always peddling leftist petitions. "When you were poor and Jewish in New York," says Dreyfuss, "you were either a left-winger or you were dead...