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Al4-Wednesday, February 20, 1980 - North Shore News

Israeli embassy
oper in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) - Israel
opened its first embassy in
the Arab world Monday with
a flag ceremony punctuated
by heavy security, an
emotional Israeli speech and
cries of joy.

But the occasion was
politically clouded by a
publicized blast by the
Egyptian government
against Israel's settlement
policy in occupied Arab
lands and aeée related
newspaper attack on Eliahu
Ben-Elissar, the first Israeli
ambassador to Egypt, one
week before his arrival to
take up his post.

Israeli Charge D’Affaires
Yose Hadass, his wife at his
side along with a handful of
Isracli and Egyptian officials
and leaders of Cairo’s tiny
Jewish community, pulled a
string to unfurl the blue-and-
white Star of David flag.

The flag ‘had been folded
and strapped to a slanting
flagpole attached to the
second-floor balcony of the
two-storey embassy
building, a villa in the Dokki
district where several other
foreign missions have their
premises.

As the flag made its first
flutter in a soft breeze under
sunny skies, a crowd of
about 200 in the street
applauded and _  Hadass,

smiling broadly, waved to
them with both arms.

A woman member of the
Cairo Jewish community
ululated — wailed — in the
traditional Arab expression
of joy when the flag un-
furled.

Another shouted “Long
live President Anwar Sadat,”
whose 1977 visit to
Jerusalem launched an
initiative culminating in last
March's signing of the
Israeli-Egyptian peace
treaty.

Security was heavy
outside the embassy, with
scores of uniformed
policemen and plainclothes
detectives standing guard,
Several truckloads of anti-
riot police stood on side
streets. Sharpshooters were
positioned on rooftops.

The 20-minute ceremony
included the unveiling of a
brass sign at the embassy
gate, identifying the building
in Hebrew, Arabic and
Enghsh, and an emotional
speech by Hadass. a 52-year-
old Syrian-born career
diplomat.

The great majority of
Arab states oppose _ the
Israeh-Egyptian treaty that
led to Israel's first embassy
in an Arab country and have
clamped diplomatic and
economic sanctions against
Cairo.

Journalists jailed

MANAGUA, Nicaragua
(UPI) - Four opposition
journalists were sentenced
Monday to two years at hard
labor in prison for publishing
Stories that allegedly
“damaged the interests and
conquests” of the Sandinista
revolution.

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