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Sadat's historic visit to Israel, and his meeting with Begin was paralleled, on a far less cosmic scale, by the journey of TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who flew to Israel with the Egyptian President and was greeted at the airport by Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff. The occasion marked the first time Wynn and Neff had met and exchanged views in Israel (their previous meetings had occurred on neutral ground such as Athens and Paris), and the first time that Wynn had set foot in the Jewish state. Says Wynn: "Before the 1967 war, when East...
...Iran remains a one-party state and in fact a one-man dictatorship," TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn reported last week after a visit to Tehran. "But in a few months the police-state atmosphere has altered drastically to a mood of vastly greater individual freedom and relaxation. Among knowledgeable Iranians it is taken for granted that the liberalization was at least partly in response to the Carter campaign. The Shah apparently feels he has a better chance to buy American military hardware if he burnishes his image...
...contend with unexpected opposition inside his own government. Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, who had thought that Sadat's visit to Israel was a long-range proposal rather than an immediate prospect, resigned when the trip was suddenly scheduled. "I am firmly against it," Fahmy told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn in Cairo. Sadat immediately offered Fahmy's job to Egypt's second-ranking diplomat, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohamed Riad. But he resigned also, in what began to resemble an Egyptian Saturday Night Massacre. Sadat then named Butros Ghali, a member of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority...
...Wynn quickly felt at home in Manhattan. Just before Jimmy Carter's speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Wynn spotted two old friends from Saudi Arabia. Both are now ambassadors, but Wynn had not seen them since they were students of his at the American University of Cairo, where he taught journalism in 1945-47. "We started talking about college days," he says, "but I soon shifted the conversation to the political situation in the Middle East. They proved excellent sources...
...There are several formulas that could be adopted," he told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn. "Perhaps there could be a delegation of Palestinians who are not P.L.O. officials but who are named by the P.L.O. and receive their instructions from [us]. Also, we would be willing to form a provisional Palestinian government-in-exile if it would help...