ALEXANDRIA: President Anwar Sadat and Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi have agreed to shelve their differences for the moment and continue a dialogue aimed at ending them, well-informed sources said today [Aug 18]. The sources said the two leaders came to the agreement in three hours of talks arranged by Sheikh Zaid Bin Sultan, President of the United Arab Emirates. … Colonel Gaddafi … left for Tripoli tonight … [and] was seen off by Mr Sadat and Sheikh Zaid. … President Sadat and Sheikh Zaid met in private for half an hour before the summit.

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Jerusalem,] Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Jerusalem, has been arrested on a charge of terrorism, the police announced here… . A police spokesman said large quantities of arms and explosives were found in the Archbishop’s car before his arrest.

He said the Archbishop was accused of being the representative of the major Palestinian guerrilla organisation El Fatah in the west bank occupied Jordan area and in Jerusalem. Arms [and] explosives delivered in the Archbishop’s car must have been used in many Palestinian attacks, the police said.

Published in Dawn, August 19th, 2024

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