Thursday, January 12, 1978

Police on Guard as Iran's Empress Dines At Waldorf While 200 Denounce the Shah


Several hundred police officers ringed the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last night as Empress Farah Pavlevi of Iran attended a dinner party inside and 200 demonstrators outside, across Park Avenue, shouted: "Shah is a fascist butcher, down with the Shah!"

Source: New York Times

Monday, January 2, 1978

ISRAELI PEACE PLAN REJECTED BY HUSSEIN

King Hussein of Jordan said today that he had seen nothing in the Israeli peace proposal offered to Egypt last week that could form the basis for a negotiated solution of the Arab-Israeli dispute.

Source: New York Times