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...entirely, they may have diverted it toward the very thing the Palestinians most fear: a separate peace between Egypt and Israel. Sadat is more isolated from his Arab brothers than ever, and probably angrier too; he was enraged almost beyond reason by the Palestinian murder of his friend Editor Youssef Sebai in Cyprus last month, and he fully recognized the effect of recent P.L.O. terrorism on his peace initiative...
...that swelled last week from the throats of Cairo street mobs marked a significant Middle East turning point. Cairenes were in the streets wailing in protest against a bizarre series of events on nearby Cyprus that began with a political assassination and climaxed in a massacre. The murder victim: Youssef Sebai, 60, author, chairman-editor of Egypt's semiofficial daily newspaper al-Ahram and a close friend of Anwar Sadat's. Sebai's slaying, by two Palestinian gunmen in the lobby of Nicosia's Cyprus Hilton, made him the first victim of Sadafs peace initiative toward...
...come to the French capital as a member of a high-ranking Palestinian delegation to attend the funeral of Mahmoud Saleh, a former P.L.O. representative who had been gunned down a few days earlier on a Paris street. Traveling on an Iraqi passport issued in the name of Youssef Hanna Raji, Abu Daoud made no effort to disguise his easily recognizable features. He breezed through immigration and checked into his $33-a-day room...
...Remember, our people have been on that land for thousands of years," says Youssef Sayegh, an economics professor at the American University of Beirut...
...they could do to keep the surging throngs of pedestrians safely on the sidewalks, and their job was made no easier by emotional Arabs who insisted on embracing each other and everyone else within reach-including Jewish police. "This is the most beautiful day of my life," announced Youssef Hannah, an aging Palestinian writer who has attacked Israel for years. "Jews and Arabs, we are brothers again...