He gazed up at the Cheops pyramid, shopped in the bazaars and once even cried out, "This is one of the happiest days of my life!" In other words, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, 64, behaved like any other tourist on his first trip to Cairo and environs. Visiting, by coincidence, on the twelfth anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Dayan was in town with his wife Rachel to talk to Egyptian officials about opening the borders between their two countries. At one point a storeowner proudly showed him a copy of a pharaonic...
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