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...already tried and convicted on Abscam charges, Williams faces a barrage of electronic evidence in the form of video and audio tapes of his encounters with undercover FBI agents. But in Williams' case, a figure mentioned but never before seen in Abscam tapes makes a dramatic appearance: "Sheik" Yassir Habib, a bogus Arab millionaire portrayed by Agent Richard Farhart, outfitted in dark glasses and kafiiyeh and grunting in imitation broken English...
...march on to its fate. The year's been, well, preliminary for Robert Klitgaard--If he could get things finished, maybe next won't be as hard. Across the world, leaders lift their glasses and then drain--Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, toast Saddam Hussein. Let Giscard D'Estaing drink with Yassir Arafat Deng Hsiao-ping, have one on Anwar Sadat. Solidarity will flow through the streets of Warszawa When Brezhnev sips vodka with Lech Walesa. Benigno Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos, share a beer, Ideally, when His Holiness the XVI Karmapa is near...
Meanwhile, Syrian President Assad, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) President Yassir Arafat and other "Rejectionist Front" leaders, harshly denounced Sadat's actions. Assad said yesterday, "Sadat has stripped himself of all Arab affinities...
...This is of course absurd, because the need for force just doesn't go away. Yassir Arafat, a man who claims to stand for the sovereignty and well-being of his people, like the Crimson editors, will not stop his butchery one fine morning...
Syria could help finance a Disney World on the Golan Heights, and Iraq and Algeria face each other in a super soccer stadium at Sharm el Sheikh. Yassir Arafat could retire on a pension, Anwar Sadat take a job as headwaiter in a kosher restaurant, and Colonel Gaddafi mount his white camel and ride off into the desert forever...