Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were quarantined; cholera can incubate in the body for as long as five days before symptoms appear. Incoming planes were fumigated as soon as they landed. The health ministry launched a massive campaign to inoculate 13 million Egyptians. Authorities burned every garbage heap they could find in Cairo and Alexandria...
Durrell's sense of place turned Alexandria into a popular municipality of literature, although his hothouse prose left the effect of unwholesome orchids raised in a mulch of shredded Oxford English Dictionaries. As a travel writer it would be difficult for Durrell to equal Bitter Lemons, his 1957 portrait of Cyprus. But then, Durrell lived for three years on Cyprus-owned a small old house, taught school, eventually worked for the British government as the island drifted into insurrection. Durrell went to Sicily as a tourist aboard the "Sicilian Carousel," a bus tour clockwise around the island...
...mission confronting Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was to learn as he put it, "how to crack the hard nuts that have to be cracked So last week Vance flew in and it of the familiar way stations of Middle Eastern diplomacy-Alexandria Beirut, Damascus ... En route he heard a revised and promising version of a formula for indirect negotiations between Israel and the Arabs-but in almost no time at all the region's quarreling states proved that this solution would not be acceptable. Thus by week's end, with his eleven-day trip mostly over...
Vance's first stop was Alexandria, the 2,300-year-old metropolis of the Nile Delta, to which nearly 2 million Cairenes-among them Egyptian President Anwar badat-flee each summer to escape the capital's stifling heat. The Secretary, who suffers from a chronically bad back arrived fatigued from his 13-hour flight. Although he was limping slightly because of a calf muscle he had pulled the previous day in a tennis game with World Bank President Robert McNamara, he headed directly for Sadat's lavish four-story seaside villa. As Vance approached, Sadat began opening...
Vance did not not meet with any Palestinians, but P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat preceded (and in some places also followed) the U.S. diplomat at every stop except Jordan. Arriving in Alexandria after Vance had departed, Arafat convinced Sadat to modify the "working group" idea by including-as a smiling Arafat described it-"a new paragraph on the Palestinians." Added an Egyptian official: "It leaves no doubt that the Palestinian rights will be respected...