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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has always displayed a knack for mercurial decisions. He spun full circle last week, confounding friends and enemies alike. With the May 26 target date for an agreement on Palestinian autonomy just around the corner, Sadat abruptly suspended the talks. His reason: Israeli Premier Menachem Begin had said that security in the West Bank and Gaza "must remain exclusively in Israel's hands, and nobody else can interfere." But after a telephone talk with his friend Jimmy Carter, Sadat told the People's Assembly in Cairo on Wednesday that negotiations with Israel would resume...
Sadat also moved dramatically last week to strengthen his domestic position. As a prelude to his parliamentary address, which had been billed as "a momentous and historic speech that will chart the odyssey of Egypt's reconstruction," Sadat announced the resignation of his Premier, Moustafa Khaki, 60, and the rest of the Cabinet. Sadat said he himself would take over as Premier, with Defense Minister Kamal Hassan Ali, 58, becoming Foreign Minister and chief negotiator in any future autonomy talks. There was no evidence of ill feeling between Sadat and Khalil. The outgoing Premier had expressed a desire...
...reverberations. Amy has been suspended from racing. New York State racing officials have indicated that, regardless of the verdict, each of the jockeys mentioned at the trial faces disciplinary hearings and may lose his license. At stake is the integrity of racing in the sport's premier state. Amy asserted that he and his friends in the jocks' dressing room discussed fixing races "twice a week" during 1974 and 1975. If this is true, the best of racing will be proved no better than the worst...
Suspicions rose about who, exactly, was being allowed to depart. Rumors persisted that the Cuban Premier was releasing common criminals from jail and ordering them on the boats, partly to prove his charge that those fleeing his island are "lumpens and antisocials." Crowed Radio Havana: "The U.S. has always wanted to pick the best brains of our people. Let them also pick up the bums...
...after militant followers of Rabbi Moshe Levinger took over the Hadassah clinic in 1979. Levinger, a zealot who advocates the "divine right" of Jews to settle anywhere in territory that belonged to biblical Israel, used the squatters' presence in the old Jewish quarter to pressure the government of Premier Menachem Begin to allow further Jewish settlement in the city. Begin's Cabinet reversed a policy prohibiting Jews from settling in heavily populated Arab cities and gave the Levinger group the go-ahead to build two Jewish schools in Hebron. That decision enraged the Palestinians, who protest that they...