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Egyptian and Israeli delegates apparently got on well with each other, both in the Blair House talks and during informal meetings at the Madison Hotel, their common residence. But as the week passed, the Israelis became somewhat irritated that the U.S. was not being more evenhanded, especially while the Blair House talks were going on. Thus, Dayan's semipublic comments about trouble brewing were partly intended to warn the Carter Administration not to go too far in siding with the Egyptians. "They are getting all of Sinai," Dayan reportedly grumbled to Carter. "You would think they might at least...
...size of Belgium) was pretty much a forgotten wasteland. As late as 1967, its population was only about 50,000, including 10,000 Bedouins and perhaps 40,000 Palestinians and Egyptians who lived in the town of El Arish near the Israeli border. The Egyptians, who have had a somewhat vaguely defined sovereignty over the area since 1906, developed some oilfields in the Sinai, but for the most part they preferred to preserve it as a buffer zone between themselves and the Israelis. To the Egyptian peasants, the region seemed a scorched, treeless moon scape, ill-suited for settlement. They...
...blue, yellow and red national flag waved from bunting-bedecked windows and balconies, citizens crowded into the ancient Plaza of the Prince of Benlloch to hail the arrival of Andorra's two sovereign Princes. It was their first meeting ever on Andorran soil, and a cordial though somewhat subdued salute was given Andorra's rulers by the local militia. They fired powder-loaded hunting rifles, since the country has no standing army and hence no cannons...
...head the Stage 2 program, Carter would like to name Alfred Kahn, a somewhat ironic choice. As chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Kahn became famous for freeing airlines from burdensome federal regulation. As overseer of the guidelines, he would be in charge of much greater Government intervention in the private economy. But Kahn has built a towering reputation in Washington as a bureaucrat who gets things done. A vastly energetic but informal official who often pads about his office in stocking feet, Kahn is a trained economist who believes that the greatest challenge to his profession "is deciding...
Final clubbers constitute a somewhat anachronistic social elite within a university which has been, for most of its 341 years, even more of an elite than...