Word: wynn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Geneva would be. For one thing, the reopening of the canal and the thinning-out of forces were undertaken by Cairo and Jerusalem without superpower prompting. For another, these acts instantly changed the Middle East mood. "I don't belittle this gesture," Sadat told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, referring to the Israeli move. "I consider it a very important act on the part of Israel. This gesture means we start the peace process again, although let us hope it is not simply a tactical move." An Egyptian diplomat observed approvingly that "until we are ready to sign a final...
...Salzburg scene: Sadat's comely wife Jehan, who stayed home to study for final exams. Twenty years after graduating from high school, she decided to seek a college degree, and is now a freshman at the University of Cairo. "How could I go?" she asked TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn. "I couldn't ever pass if I went off to Salzburg. I know Mrs. Ford will be there, but I just cannot...
...minute interview with TIME's Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn last week, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat indicated his willingness -under certain conditions-to renew the mandate of the United Nations peace-keeping force for longer than three months and to consider allowing nonstrategic Israeli cargoes to transit the reopened Suez Canal. Excerpts...
Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff pressed Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin for his interpretation of the stalled Middle East negotiations, while Correspondents Wilton Wynn in Cairo and Karsten Prager in Beirut reported Arab views and reaction to Faisal's death. From Washington, Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter and State Department Correspondent Strobe Talbott contributed to an analysis of how setbacks in Indochina and the Middle East may affect the future of the Secretary of State. The special section is illustrated by four pages of color photographs, including a remarkable picture of Faisal's simple sand-and-stone grave by TIME...
...dealing with the desert tribes, from which his family emerged. At his villa in Riyadh, he keeps open house continuously for tribesmen from the desert. "He has the knack of welcoming a visitor as if he has waited all his life to meet him," notes TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn. " 'He is so amiable and agreeable in conversation,' one friend says, 'that he makes you think he agrees with you, no matter what you discuss...